simplify printing of a list

Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Fri Jun 4 08:08:02 EDT 2004


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:08:57PM -0700, beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
> To print a list with a specified format one can write (for example)
> 
> for j in [0,1,2]:
>     print "%6d"%j,
> print
> 
> The code
> 
> print "%6d"%[0,1,2]
> 
> currently produces a syntax error,

No, it doesn't. (it produces a TypeError)

> but it would be convenient if it
> had the same meaning as the loop above.

No, it wouldn't.

[remainder deleted]

Jeff
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