Often I need print lists, dictionaries etc. with nice horizontal alignment (something like tab in MS-Word but not \t character).
It is not hard to implement function which does it. E.g.
def printDictTabed(dct,ntab=10):
for k,v in dct.items():
sk = str(k)
tab = ' '*max(0,ntab-len(sk))
print sk,tab,": ",v
printDictTabed({454:99897754545,"x":5454,"john":"whatever"},ntab=6)
Output:
x : 5454
john : whatever
454 : 99897754545
But isn't this possible to do somehow using standard python formating?
Padding and aligning strings
By default values are formatted to take up only as many characters as needed to represent the content. It is however also possible to define that a value should be padded to a specific length.
Unfortunately the default alignment differs between old and new style formatting. The old style defaults to right aligned while for new style it's left.
Align right:
Old
'%10s' % ('test',)
New
'{:>10}'.format('test')
Align left:
Old
'%-10s' % ('test',)
New
'{:10}'.format('test')
your example:
def printDictTabed(dct):
for k,v in dct.items():
print('{:10}:{:>15}'.format(str(k), str(v)))
printDictTabed({454:99897754545,"x":5454,"john":"whatever"})
output:
454 : 99897754545
x : 5454
john : whatever