[Tutor] printing columns

[Kalle Svensson]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

[Rob]
> Actually, what I had in mind was to have output I could paste
> directly into a C++ header file. The output from my original code
> should compile without error, but I thought it would be a nice touch
> to display it in pretty columns.

Something like

    print "#define ROB_%s%s%s" % (item, " " * (20 - len(item)), myInt)

maybe?

Maybe 20 is to much or too little.  First, do something like

   lens = [len(x) for x in menuItems]
   lens.sort()
   maxlen = lens[-1]

and then use (maxlen + 1) instead of 20 above.

If you had a function sort() like this:

def sort(lst):
    x = lst[:]
    x.sort()
    return x

the second code snippet could be written

    maxlen = sort([len(x) for x in menuItems])[-1]

as well.

Peace,
  Kalle
- -- 
Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/
Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>

iD8DBQE9QKL0dNeA1787sd0RAh9cAKCaT2tXYjaN3oSqWHut+gryHDCHXACfXcO5
31sY0qiD9pOFX0ltxtSE53k=
=DQmR
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----