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

[Dick Moores]

At 12:35 PM 11/2/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
>>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.
>
>Just change 'print "\n"' to 'print'
>
>Kent

Of course! Don't know why I didn't see that.

Thanks again, Kent and Markus.

Dick