[Tutor] print formatting, length of string

[Lloyd Kvam]

Totally untest, but (hopefully) close>
def formatListOfRecordDicts(listOfRecordDicts, showKeyList=None):
	if showKeyList is None:
		showKeyList = listOfRecordDicts[0].keys() # fails empty
	keylen = max([len(k) for k in showKeyList])
	for i,recordDict in enumerate(listOfRecordDicts):
		print "**** %s. row *****" % (i+1)
		for k in showKeyList:


On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 13:40, tpc at csua.berkeley.edu wrote:

> <code>
> def formatListOfRecordDicts(listOfRecordDicts):
>         count = 0
>         for recordDict in listOfRecordDicts:
>                 count += 1
>                 print "*************************** % s. row ***************************" % count
>                 print "   First_Name:", recordDict['First_Name']
>                 print "    Last_Name:", recordDict['Last_Name']
>                 print "Address_Line1:", recordDict['Address_Line1']
> </code>
> 
> and as you can imagine I'd have to rewrite it if and when I decide to pull
> out a different set of data from my database.  Is there a more elegant way
> of doing this ?
> 
> 
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