Still Question about print format?

[Mindy]

> If what you really wanted was to create a classic
> "report" (static 
> formatted output for consumption by humans), you
> shouldn't be using tabs 
> at all.  Look at using the string methods "center",
> "ljust" and "rjust", 
> which will give you your string values with
> space-padding to be exactly 
> a given length.

That's really what I want to do but I didn't explain
it clearly. Thanks for your clarifying. I tried to use
ljust as you said and modified my codes as the
following. But I still couldn't get the aligned
result. Did I mess up in any place? Thanks so much.


        form = """
	%(index)d
	%(symbol)s
	%(binding_file)s
	%(to_file)s\n
	"""

	string.ljust(symbol,50)
	string.ljust(binding_file[0],50)
	tring.ljust(to_file[0],50)
	print >>fp1, form%{'index':i,
			   'symbol':symbol,
	                'binding_file':binding_file[0],
			       'to_file':to_file[0],
			      }

The results I got:

	4		
	`_XmInheritClass'				
	netscape					
	netscape	

They are not what I want as aligning 4 columns in a
row such as:

4 `_XmInheritClass'  netscape   netscape	

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Cheers
-Mindy

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