On 04/21/12 14:44, Roy Smith wrote:
*********************** * * * First Name and Last * * ENGR 109-X * * Fall 2999 * * Format Example * * * ***********************You can take advantage of python's string formatting capabilities (which are pretty much the same as C's printf() formatting), and do something like: print "* %-*s *" % (max_length, data)
Sounds like a lot more work and less flexible than using the (underemployed) .ljust() or .center() methods of a string. :-)
print "* %s *" % data.ljust(42) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
