[Tutor] Re: How can I format rows of irregular sized strings to print in columns?

[Lee Harr]

>I wrote a little program to look for graphics files and tell me the image
>size and the file size of each file. The data prints out like this:
>
>(292, 240) 35638 defender.bmp
>(1024, 768) 2359350 evolution3.bmp
>(78, 76) 17990 GRID1A.bmp
>
>How can I make it so that it looks more like this:
>
>( 292,  240)    35,638  defender.bmp
>(1024,  768) 2,359,350  evolution3.bmp
>(  78,   76)    17,990  GRID1A.bmp
>


Please post only in plain text.

You will want to look at the string formatting operator:
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html


One handy example:

>>>a='(292, 240)';b=35638; c='defender.bmp'
>>>print '%10s %10s %20s' % (a, b, c)
(292, 240)      35638         defender.bmp

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