Re: [Tutor] Is there any standard module for "pretty printing" to stdout?

[Magnus Lycka]

> I have a need for tabular and rather fancy printing to stdout. What
> I dream of - would give me control over setting rules on column width, 
> cell padding and/or truncation, justification, etc. Intention is to 
> allow running script connect its hooks into 'tabular thingy 4 fancy 
> printing', run it and let the 'thingy' take care of appying printing 
> rules to the output stream as it happens (as the stream is being 
> genereated).

You might want to have a look at the textwrap module. As I
understand you, you need to write some kind of stream class
that replaces sys.sdtout with your code that uses (maybe)
textwrap, but that's not so difficult. I think there are
examples of roughly that at the ActiveState Python Cookbook.

For really pretty python based printing look at reportlab.com!

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