On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:49:01 -0800, matt.s.marotta wrote: > School assignment is to create a tab separated output with the original > given addresses in one column and then the addresses split into other > columns (ex, columns for city, postal code, street suffix).
If you're trying to create fixed width output from variable width fields, format specifiers may be better to use than tabs. The problem with tabs is that columns end up misaligned when the data fields in a column contain a mixture of items of less length than the tab spacing and items of greater length than the tab spacing, unless you can work out the tab spacing and adjust accordingly. For example, my code which uses the re module to separate the various record components and a format specifier to print the text and html versions (and csvwriter for the csv) them creates the outputs seen here: http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/farms.txt http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/farms.csv http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/farms.htm -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
