|| ... || Is there anyway to format it like this: || || Dell 45 40% || Microsoft 60 56% || IBM 4 5% || ... e-tones ... Something like this seems to work ... vList = [ ( 'Dell' , 45 , 40 ) , ( 'Microsoft' , 60 , 56 ) , ( 'IBM' , 4 , 5 ) ] for xTup in vList : print ' %-12s %3d %3d%% ' % ( xTup[ 0 ] , xTup[ 1 ] , xTup[ 2 ] ) Cousin Stanley