print format

[Erik Max Francis]

Curtis Jensen wrote:

> I don't know if this is possible in python but, Is there a way to
> repeat
> a format command a spceified number of times?  For example, in Fortran
> there is the format code "20I5"  Which is the same as "I5" twenty
> times.  I want something like:
> print '20(%i5) ' % [list of 20 intgers]

Why not something like

    print ("%5d " * 20) % integerTuple

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