def perline(n): count = 1 while 1: yield (count == n) and "\n" or " " count = count % n + 1
r = range(1,101) p = perline(5) print "".join("%d%s" % (x, p.next()) for x in r) unexpected wrote: > If have a list from 1 to 100, what's the easiest, most elegant way to > print them out, so that there are only n elements per line. > > So if n=5, the printed list would look like: > > 1 2 3 4 5 > 6 7 8 9 10 > 11 12 13 14 15 > etc. > > My search through the previous posts yields methods to print all the > values of the list on a single line, but that's not what I want. I feel > like there is an easy, pretty way to do this. I think it's possible to > hack it up using while loops and some ugly slicing, but hopefully I'm > missing something -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list