CPIM Ronin wrote: > Can someone suggest a specific tutorial strictly on report writing? > > I'm able to write reports fairly easily in Python. I know the stuff like > str(round(x,2)) where x = 3.145678 will yield 3.14. What I'm looking for is > to be able to control left and right justification, column by column while > using string and numeric data of variable lengths so that my reports look > much neater.
Do you know about the string formatting operator %? http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html You might also be interested in this recipe which formats a table for output: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/267662 Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
