[Tutor] Need to be taught a trick or two about printing in neat columns

[Dick Moores]

At 11:33 AM 11/2/2006, Markus Rosenstihl wrote:
>Try somthing like this:
>
>In [32]: a=range(100)
>In [33]: for i in range(0,len(a)):
>     ....:     print '%-27s'%a[i],
>     ....:     if (i+1)%3 == 0: print "\n"
>
>0                           1                           2
>
>3                           4                           5
>...
>93                          94                          95
>
>96                          97                          98
>
>99
>
>
>Note the comma after the first print statement

Yes, thanks, but the reason I wanted 3 columns was to compress the 
height of the list printout for the user, so I don't want all those 
blank lines.

Dick