In article <32945367.2045.1335029313436.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4>, someone <wesbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not going to do your homework for you (nor do I expect anybody else will), but I'll give you a hint about one sticky part. > 6) Display the SHI data read from the file in the interpreter with a border > around the SHI data (include a buffer of 1 line/space between the border and > SHI data). An example might look like: > > *********************** > * * > * First Name and Last * > * ENGR 109-X * > * Fall 2999 * > * Format Example * > * * > *********************** You can take advantage of python's string formatting capabilities (which are pretty much the same as C's printf() formatting), and do something like: print "* %-*s *" % (max_length, data) That will at least get you the data left-justified with the correct number of spaces for padding. See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting for details. You'll need to compute max_length by applying len() to each of the individual strings in turn, and picking the largest of them with max(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
