printing with variable length of list

[Riccardo Galli]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:55:20 -0700, les ander wrote:

> Hi,
> suppose I have a list
> d=[1.2 , 31.1, 1.001]
> in general i will not know the size of d
> however, I would like to print them out nicely in the row format
> such as:
> print "%-10f "* len(d) % d
> 
> however, the above line does not work--python says that float
> argument is required.

You need a tuple, not a list
print "%-10f "* len(d) % tuple(d)

Riccardo

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