Printing Columns

[Peter Hansen]

David Lewis wrote:
> 
> This should give you a start:
> 
> >>> x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h']
> >>> x[0: :3]
> ['a', 'd', 'g']
> >>> x[1: :3]
> ['b', 'e', 'h']
> >>> x[2: :3]
> ['c', 'f']

This kind of response, requiring *alpha* software that is not yet
released and unlikely to be used by the majority of people, deserves
a caveat:

The above will not work with standard versions of Python prior to 2.3.


-Peter