common lisp like format directive to print lists

Question

Disclaimer: The question how to print a list in python is already covered multiple times, thus, this question does NOT ask HOW to print a list BUT WHETHER a specific way to print a list exists (using the format directive).

The first hit one gets googling how to print a list using format in python is here and it looks like:

print('\n'.join('{}'.format(k) for k in lst))

is the way to go. But I keep wondering if there is a lisp like format directive to do this without the verbose join operation. E.g. in common lisp one would simple write:

(FORMAT T "~%~{~a~%~}" list-i-want-printed)

~{...~} basically means iterate over list

~a basically means to take one argument and print it using its (or the default) print/to-string directive

~% newline

Does such a format directive exist in python?

As a more thorough example why I'd like to use such directive: Given you have 3 lists you want to print below each other. The lisp FORMAT would allow:

(FORMAT T "~{~a~}~%~{~a~}~%~{~a~}~%" list-1 list-2 list-3)

whereas the python solution would look like:

print(''.join('{}'.format(k) for k in lsta) + '\n' + ''.join('{}'.format(k) for k in lstb) + '\n' + ''.join('{}'.format(k) for k in lstc))

not quite as refined.

Answer 1

I think the basic answer is "No", but you can refine your example a bit:

print( ' '.join(  '{}'.format(k) for k in lsta+lstb+lstc  ) )

No newlines. If I wanted a newline after each list I'd do

for lst in (lsta,lstb,lstc):
    print( ' '.join(  '{}'.format(k) for k in lst  ) )