Thanks to the chaps who answered, I knew there would be an efficient answer to this.
regards, Rob On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 13:31 +0100, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Glenn Hutchings wrote: > > Rob Briggs <rdbriggs <at> mun.ca> writes: > > > > > > > Is there a way to do a repeat formatting command like in Fortran? Rather > > > that doing this: > > > > > > print "%s %-5.3f %-5.3f %-5.3f %-5.3f %-5.3f %-5.3f %-5.3f" % > > > (parmName[i], tmp[i][1], tmp[i][2], tmp[i][4], tmp[i][6], tmp[i][7], > > > tmp[i][8], tmp[i][9]) > > > > > > > There certainly is. You can use python's string concatenation > > and repeat operators: > > > > print "%s" + " %-5.3f" * 7 % <stuff> > > > > Glenn > > > > > > data = tuple(parmName[i]) + tuple(tmp[i]) > print "%s" + " %-5.3f" * len(tmp[i]) % data > > That should do the trick. > > JM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
