[Python-ideas] Columnize in module "cmd"

[Guido van Rossum]

That code is trying to find an optimal solution where the columns may be of
different width.

Good luck!

--Guido

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Tom Zhou <pytom at yahoo.cn> wrote:

>
> Hi~ alls
>  recently, i focus on the module "cmd", and find some confused things--
> the function named "columnize". Why we need a multiloop as
> "for nrows ..
>         for col ..
>                    for row.."
> ?? i think we can make a easier method, for example, first, find out the
> maxlen str in list, and use its length as the standard size to format the
> list.
> Ok, maybe i ignore something, so please give me some hints.
>
>
> ---
> thanks
> tom
>
>
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