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 to do a repeat formatting command like

Re: Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-09 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Glenn Hutchings wrote: Rob Briggs 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

Re: Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-09 Thread Glenn Hutchings
Rob Briggs 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 cert

Re: Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-08 Thread Novocastrian_Nomad
How about: print ('%s ' + '%-5.4f ' * 7) % ('text',1,2,3,4,5,6,7) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Query about doing fortran-esque repeat formatting

2009-11-08 Thread Mensanator
On Nov 8, 8:56�am, Rob Briggs wrote: > 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

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 %