[Tutor] printing columns

[Guillermo Fernandez]

Rob wrote:
> 
> Actually, what I had in mind was to have output I could paste directly into
> a C++ header file. The output from my original code should compile without
> error, but I thought it would be a nice touch to display it in pretty
> columns.

I think I get your point (I'm also a maniac of the two columns #define
;-)

Here is a proposed solution. Unfortunately, it only works in cases where
your name plus the #define is less that... 4*number of equivalent spaces
per tabulation.

Each tabulation is equivalent to a number of spaces (is what the
variable of tab_space represents) so you'll have to add plus or less
tabulations depending of how much "equivalent spaces" your #define
ROB_name uses. It's what I try to do in the following program.

If it's not very clear, please told me and I'll try to make it clearer.

menuItems = ['NEW', 'OPEN', 'CLOSE', 'SAVE', 'SAVEAS',
             'PAGESETUP', 'PRINTPREVIEW', 'PRINT', 'EXIT',
             'UNDO', 'CUT', 'COPY', 'PASTE', 'SEARCH',
             'NORMALVIEW', 'PRINTVIEW', 'ZOOMVIEW', 'STANDARDTB',
             'EDITTB', 'STATUSTB', 'CUSTOMTB', 'CASCADE', 'TILE',
             'SPLIT']

myInt=1

tab_space=8

for item in menuItems:
    define='#define ROB_' + item
    if len(define) < (2*tab_space):
	define+='\t\t\t' + str(myInt)
    elif len(define) > (3*tab_space-1):
	define+='\t' + str(myInt)
    else:
	define+='\t\t' + str(myInt)
    print define
    myInt = myInt + 1


with this we have a two columns output of:

guille/scripts> python test.py
#define ROB_NEW                 1
#define ROB_OPEN                2
#define ROB_CLOSE               3
#define ROB_SAVE                4
#define ROB_SAVEAS              5
#define ROB_PAGESETUP           6
#define ROB_PRINTPREVIEW        7
#define ROB_PRINT               8
#define ROB_EXIT                9
#define ROB_UNDO                10
#define ROB_CUT                 11
#define ROB_COPY                12
#define ROB_PASTE               13
#define ROB_SEARCH              14
#define ROB_NORMALVIEW          15
#define ROB_PRINTVIEW           16
#define ROB_ZOOMVIEW            17
#define ROB_STANDARDTB          18
#define ROB_EDITTB              19
#define ROB_STATUSTB            20
#define ROB_CUSTOMTB            21
#define ROB_CASCADE             22
#define ROB_TILE                23
#define ROB_SPLIT               24