whitespace in a word doc

[Bruce]

On Jul 15, 9:59 am, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 15/07/2010 08:45, Bruce wrote:
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> > I'm trying to create a word doc using win32com. I don't get the same
> > whitespace as when printing the same stuff in the dos window. At the
> > terminal I manage to line up the second column like
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> > apples          5
> > pears            7
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> > I do this by adding whitespace characters to the strings in the first
> > column so that their length is equal to that of the longest string in
> > the first column.
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> > I print the excact same string to word. but in the word doc somehting
> > happens that messes things up like this :
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> > apples                        5
> > pears               7
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> > Needless to say, this is extremely frustrating. But why does it
> > happen, and how can I align the column in word?
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> Couple of things which will help us to help you:
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> 1) Consider what's going on *without* Python: if you take the exact
> same text and spaces and type it into a Word document, does the same
> thing happen?

Yes. Now using courier new. Thanks.