On Jun 2, 11:34 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 9:43 pm, Doug Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:42:12 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > On Jun 2, 3:38 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Jun 2, 9:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > i am building a little script and i want to output a series of columns
> > > > > more or less like this:
>
> > > > > 1 5 6
> > > > > 2 2 8
> > > > > 2 9 5
> > > ...
>
> > I have a related question:
>
> > Does Python have (or can emulate) the formatted output capability found in
> > Perl?
>
> > For example, all I have to do to get nicely formatted (i.e., aligned) output
> > is provide values for special STDOUT variables (i.e., STDOUT_TOP, STDOUT,
> > STDOUT_BOTTOM, etc.), exemplified by:
>
> > format STDOUT_TOP =
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ~
> > .
>
> > format STDOUT =
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > $res->{'full_name'}, $res->{'phone_1'}, $res->{'phone_1_type'}
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
> > $res->{'address_1a'}, $res->{'address_2a'}
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
> > $res->{'address_1b'}, $res->{'address_2b'}
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
> > $res->{'address_1c'}, $res->{'address_2c'}
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
> > $city_1 $city_2
> > @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~
> > $res->{'email_1'}, $res->{'email_2'}
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ~
> > .
>
> > Then, all I have to do is populate my $res object/hash as desired -- in this
> > example simple the results of a SQL query -- and lastly just call the
> > "write"
> > function:
>
> > write;
>
> > and Perl will produce very nicely formatted results. This is useful not
> > only
> > for producing human readable output, but also fixed-column-width data files,
> > etc. I'd love to learn the Pythonistic way of doing the same thing.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Doug
>
> Can't seem to do this with dictionaries but...
>
> preformatted_string = """
> %s %20s %20s
> %s %30s
> %s %30s
> """
>
> print preformatted_string % ('first name'[:20], 'contact num 1'[:20],
> 'contact num type'[:20], 'address line 1'[:30], 'address line
> 2'[:30]
> 'address line 3'[:30], 'address line 4'[:30])
>
> You could do something like that. the "[:20]" etc @ the end of the
> inputs is ofc to trim the strings to a max length. The string
> formatter supports "%<number of characters to move to the right>s" so
> you can use that for alignment. It's a bit late so maybe I buggered
> up when I tried to use dictionary assignment with it, but who knows :p
Actually just realised I had the number on the wrong side... :D
preformatted_string = """
%(first_name)s %(contact_num)20s %(contact_type)20s
"""
print preformatted_string % {'first_name':'Chris',
'contact_num':'555-5555', 'contact_type':'Home'}
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