Writting to specific location in a file

[Michael Hoffman]

artixan at gmail.com wrote:

> My chanllenge  is that each field needs to have a exact specific
> position in the output file.
> For instance a_field needs to start at position 2 in the line, b_fields
> at position 18 and so on, for all the fields on each line.

You can use string formatting operations:

row = ("a", "b")
print "  %-16s%-16s" % row

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
-- 
Michael Hoffman