[Tutor] Displaying in columnar / tabular form

[wesley chun]

On 8/24/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> Vincent Gulinao wrote:
> >
> > Anyone knows a neat way of displaying output in columnar/tabular form?
>
> You might like this recipe:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/267662
>
> Another option is to write an HTML file containing a table.


the recipe that kent suggested seems really fully-featured.  for
simpler applications where i just want "to do it myself," i would use
the same string methods that the recipe's code uses: center(),
ljust(), and rjust().

another alternative for external columnar alighment, in addition to
kent's HTML suggestion is to just write it directly into an Excel
spreadsheet (via Win32 libraries) or alternatively, generate a CSV
file that Excel can import.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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