Re: Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-09 Thread Rob Briggs
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 mun.ca> writes: > > > > > > > Is there a way

Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Briggs
Hello, 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]) Something like this: print "%s 7%-5.3f %