[Tutor] Making table

[Alan Gauld]

"Per Jr. Greisen" <pgreisen at gmail.com> wrote

> I need to generate a table with different x,y,z values and write 
> them to a
> file:
> 10.171  -15.243 -2.558
> 9.837   -14.511 -1.923
> -23.451 -13.870 51.507
>

others have discussed format strings.
One final tip is to put the format string in a variable then use that
in printing/writing the output

eg:

fmt = '%10.3f\t%10.3f\t%10.3f'
print fmt % v1,v2,v3

This has the advantage that you can build the format string
dynamically by examining the data first - eg the maximum
length of an entry.

Also by using a minus sign in the format string you can
change the justification.

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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