[Tutor] Formatter

[andy surany]

I learned from this example as well.... Thanks!!

I noticed that the format of each field is right justified. How would
you make it left justified?

Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Versteegen <pversteegen@gcnetmail.net>
To: Bob Gailer <ramrom@earthling.net>; Tutor@python.org
<Tutor@python.org>
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Formatter


>Sorry about the last message (without a comment)
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>Thanks for your responses. They're very helpful.. This also shows agian
the
>flexibility and versatility of Python.  Yes definitely easier to learn
than
>C++!
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>Pete Versteegen
>pversteegen@gcnetmail.net
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>On 1/18/03 12:42 PM, "Bob Gailer" <ramrom@earthling.net> wrote:
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>> At 11:05 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Pete Versteegen wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of an easy way to format a mixture of floats,
integers,
>>> spaces, and text in well arranged columns?
>>>
>>> My thoughts wander towards the way the Fortran language does it.
I'm
>>> considered a function (class) that would be called as follows:
>>> format((a, alf, i), "f10.2, a10, 10x, i5")
>>
>> def format(values, format):
>>  formatlist = format.split(',')
>>  sf = ''
>>  for formatitem in formatlist:
>>    type = formatitem[0]
>>    if type in 'fi':
>>      sf += '%' + formatitem[1:] + type
>>    if type == 'a':
>>      sf += ' '*int(formatitem[1:])
>>    elif formatitem[-1] == 'x':
>>      sf += '%' + formatitem[:-1] + 's'
>>  return sf % values
>> a = 5
>> alf = 'qwer'
>> i = 3
>> print format((a, alf, i), "f10.2,a10,10x,i5")
>>
>> result:       5.00                qwer    3
>>
>> For simplicity I removed the spaces between the fortran format items.
A
>> little more code would handle them.
>>
>> Bob Gailer
>> mailto:ramrom@earthling.net
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