write the values of an ordered dictionary into a file

[Peter Otten]

Ganesh Pal wrote:

> Hi Team

There is no team, just some random guys on the net. Sorry to disappoint 
you...

> I need to write the values of an ordered dictionary into a file . All
> values should be in a single row with a header list
> 
> 
> 
> *Example:*
> 
> 
> 
> *student = [("NAME", "John"),*
> 
> *           ("AGE", 28),*
> 
> *           ("SCORE", 13),*
> 
> *           ("YEAR", 2018),*
> 
> *           ("FEE", 250)]*
> 
> *student = OrderedDict(student)*
> 
> 
> 
> *The OrderedDict Should be append at the end of the file as as shown
> below.*
> 
> 
> *# tail -2  /tmp/student_record.txt *
> 
> *.................................................................*
> 
> *||STUDENT NAME||STUDENT AGE||MARKS SCORED||PASSED YEAR||FEES PAID||*
> 
> *||John        ||  28       ||  13        || 2018      || 250     ||*


Here's one way, written in Python 3.

widths = [len(ch) for ch in header_list]

def print_row(values, widths=widths, file=None):
    print(
        "||",
        "||".join("{:^{}}".format(v, w) for v, w in zip(values, widths)),
        "||", sep="", file=file
    )

print_row(header_list)
print_row(student.values())

In Python 2 it should work after

from __future__ import print_function

or by replacing print() with a few file.write() calls.