On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:42:12 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 3:38 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jun 2, 9:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > i am building a little script and i want to output a series of columns
> > > more or less like this:
> >
> > > 1 5 6
> > > 2 2 8
> > > 2 9 5
> ...
I have a related question:
Does Python have (or can emulate) the formatted output capability found in
Perl?
For example, all I have to do to get nicely formatted (i.e., aligned) output
is provide values for special STDOUT variables (i.e., STDOUT_TOP, STDOUT,
STDOUT_BOTTOM, etc.), exemplified by:
format STDOUT_TOP =
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~
.
format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$res->{'full_name'}, $res->{'phone_1'}, $res->{'phone_1_type'}
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
$res->{'address_1a'}, $res->{'address_2a'}
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
$res->{'address_1b'}, $res->{'address_2b'}
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
$res->{'address_1c'}, $res->{'address_2c'}
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
$city_1 $city_2
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
$res->{'email_1'}, $res->{'email_2'}
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~
.
Then, all I have to do is populate my $res object/hash as desired -- in this
example simple the results of a SQL query -- and lastly just call the "write"
function:
write;
and Perl will produce very nicely formatted results. This is useful not only
for producing human readable output, but also fixed-column-width data files,
etc. I'd love to learn the Pythonistic way of doing the same thing.
Thanks!
Doug
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