[Tutor] Formatting output into columns

[Alan Gauld]

"Scott Oertel" <freebsd at scottevil.com> wrote

> and you want to sort and output the text into columns as such:
>
> a              p               j             b              n
> apple      python     john       bean       nice
> ample                      joke
>
> and this is what works, but I would also like to know how to wrap 
> the
> columns, plus any ideas on a better way to accomplish this.

Use format strings. You can calculate the column widths by analyzing
the data then create a format string for the required number of 
columns.
Finally insert the data on each row from a tuple.


HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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