Question: How do I format printing in python

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On Jun 24, 12:12 am, joemacbusin... at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> How do I format printed data in python?
> I could not find this in the Python Reference Manual:http://docs.python.org/ref/print.html
> Nor could I find it in Matloff's great tutorial:http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PythonIntro.pdf
>
> For example, how do I turn this:
>
> 512 Jun 5 2004 X11r6
> 22 Jan 17 2005 a2p
> 22 Jan 17 2005 acctcom
> 5374 Sep 15 2002 acledit
> 5664 May 13 2004 aclget
> 12020 May 13 2004 aclput
> 115734 Jun 2 2004 adb
> 46518 Jun 4 2004 admin
> 66750 Sep 16 2002 ali
> 1453 Sep 15 2002 alias
> 28150 Jun 4 2004 alog
> 15 May 12 2005 alstat
>
> into this:
>
> 512        Jun   5   2004    X11r6
> 22         Jan   17  2005    a2p
> 22         Jan   17  2005    acctcom
> 5374       Sep   15  2002    acledit
> 5664       May   13  2004    aclget
> 12020      May   13  2004    aclput
> 115734     Jun   2   2004    adb
> 46518      Jun   4   2004    admin
> 66750      Sep   16  2002    ali
> 1453       Sep   15  2002    alias
> 28150      Jun   4   2004    alog
> 15         May   12  2005    alstat
>
> Thank you

There is string formatting

print formatspecifier_string % data_sequence
The format specifier is similar to the one used in C's printf, and
data sequence may be tuple or list. Dictionary may also be used for
data, but it has its own way to specify string formatting since
dictionary is unordered but "indexed" by the dict key.