On Jun 2, 9:43 pm, Doug Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Can't seem to do this with dictionaries but...
preformatted_string = """
%s %20s %20s
%s %30s
%s %30s
"""
print preformatted_string % ('first name'[:20], 'contact num 1'[:20],
'contact num type'[:20], 'address line 1'[:30], 'address line
2'[:30]
'address line 3'[:30], 'address line 4'[:30])
You could do something like that. the "[:20]" etc @ the end of the
inputs is ofc to trim the strings to a max length. The string
formatter supports "%<number of characters to move to the right>s" so
you can use that for alignment. It's a bit late so maybe I buggered
up when I tried to use dictionary assignment with it, but who knows :p
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