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I have a list of 107 names, I would like to print them out in groups of 3 or so, with each name separated by a tab, a newline after each line, until the end. How can I do this?
with for item in list print item i only get 1 name per line of course, which is fine I guess but i'd like to fit more in the console at once so I'd like to print 3 or so names on each line as I go through the list, so instead of:
name1
name2
name3
name4
name5
name6
i would get:
name1 name2 name3
name4 name5 name6
It's kindof hard to search for an answer to this, i haven't been able to come up with quite what I need or that I could understand, most things I did find just deal with len() or range() and confused me. Is there some simple way to do this? Thank you!
[edit:update] using @inspectorG4dget's example of:
for i in range(0, len(listnames), 5):
print '\t\t'.join(listnames[i:i+5])
i get the following: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=41159
how can I get that cleaned up so everything is nicely aligned in each column? Is what I want possible to do easily?
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li = ['sea','mountain','desert',
'Emma','Cathy','Kate',
'ii','uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu','aaa',
'round','flat','sharp',
'blueberry','banana','apple',
'red','purple','white',
'hen','tiger']
a,b = divmod(len(li),3)
itn = iter(li).next
print ''.join('%s\t%s\t%s\n' % (itn(),itn(),itn())
for i in xrange(a))\
+ ('%s\t%s\t\n' % (itn(),itn()) if b==2
else '%s\t\n' % itn() if b==1
else '')
result
sea mountain desert
Emma Cathy Kate
ii uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu aaa
round flat sharp
blueberry banana apple
red purple white
hen tiger
.
And to align in columns whose width depends on the longest element of the list:
li = ['sea','mountain','desert',
'Emma','Cathy','Kate',
'HH','VVVVVVV','AAA',
'round','flat','sharp',
'blueberry','banana','apple',
'red','purple','white',
'hen','tiger']
maxel = max(len(el) for el in li)
a,b = divmod(len(li),3)
itn = iter(li).next
form = '%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\n' % (maxel,maxel,maxel)
print ''.join(form % (itn(),itn(),itn())
for i in xrange(a))\
+ ('%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\t\n' %(maxel,maxel) % (itn(),itn()) if b==2
else '%%-%ds\t\n' % ma% itn() if b==1
else '')
result
sea mountain desert
Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA
round flat sharp
blueberry banana apple
red purple white
hen tiger
.
To align in column, the width of each column depending upon the longest element in it:
li = ['sea','mountain','desert',
'Emma','Cathy','Kate',
'HH','VVVVVVV','AAA',
'round','flat','sharp',
'nut','banana','apple',
'red','purple','white',
'hen','tiger']
maxel0 = max(len(li[i]) for i in xrange(0,len(li),3))
maxel1 = max(len(li[i]) for i in xrange(1,len(li),3))
maxel2 = max(len(li[i]) for i in xrange(2,len(li),3))
a,b = divmod(len(li),3)
itn = iter(li).next
form = '%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\n' % (maxel0,maxel1,maxel2)
print ''.join(form % (itn(),itn(),itn())
for i in xrange(a))\
+ ('%%-%ds\t%%-%ds\t\n' %(maxel0,maxel1) % (itn(),itn()) if b==2
else '%%-%ds\t\n' % maxel0 % itn() if b==1
else '')
result
sea mountain desert
Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA
round flat sharp
nut banana apple
red purple white
hen tiger
I've modified the algorithm in order to generalize to any number of columns wanted.
The wanted number of columns must be passed as argument to parameter nc :
from itertools import imap,islice
li = ['sea','mountain','desert',
'Emma','Cathy','Kate',
'HH','VVVVVVV','AAA',
'round','flat','sharp',
'nut','banana','apple',
'heeeeeeeeeeen','tiger','snake'
'red','purple','white',
'atlantic','pacific','antarctic',
'Bellini']
print 'len of li == %d\n' % len(li)
def cols_print(li,nc):
maxel = tuple(max(imap(len,islice(li,st,None,nc)))
for st in xrange(nc))
nblines,tail = divmod(len(li),nc)
stakes = (nc-1)*['%%-%ds\t'] + ['%%-%ds']
form = ''.join(stakes) % maxel
itn = iter(li).next
print '\n'.join(form % tuple(itn() for g in xrange(nc))
for i in xrange(nblines))
if tail:
print ''.join(stakes[nc-tail:]) % maxel[0:tail] % tuple(li[-tail:]) + '\n'
else:
print
for nc in xrange(3,8):
cols_print(li,nc)
print '-----------------------------------------------------------'
result
len of li == 24
sea mountain desert
Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA
round flat sharp
nut banana apple
heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered
purple white atlantic
pacific antarctic Bellini
-----------------------------------------------------------
sea mountain desert Emma
Cathy Kate HH VVVVVVV
AAA round flat sharp
nut banana apple heeeeeeeeeeen
tiger snakered purple white
atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
-----------------------------------------------------------
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy
Kate HH VVVVVVV AAA round
flat sharp nut banana apple
heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered purple white
atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
-----------------------------------------------------------
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA round flat sharp
nut banana apple heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered
purple white atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
-----------------------------------------------------------
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy Kate HH
VVVVVVV AAA round flat sharp nut banana
apple heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered purple white atlantic
pacific antarctic Bellini
-----------------------------------------------------------
.
But I prefer a displaying in which there are no tabs between columns, but only a given number of characters.
In the following code, I choosed to separate the columns by 2 characters: it is the 2 in the line
maxel = tuple(max(imap(len,islice(li,st,None,nc)))+2
The code
from itertools import imap,islice
li = ['sea','mountain','desert',
'Emma','Cathy','Kate',
'HH','VVVVVVV','AAA',
'round','flat','sharp',
'nut','banana','apple',
'heeeeeeeeeeen','tiger','snake'
'red','purple','white',
'atlantic','pacific','antarctic',
'Bellini']
print 'len of li == %d\n' % len(li)
def cols_print(li,nc):
maxel = tuple(max(imap(len,islice(li,st,None,nc)))+2
for st in xrange(nc))
nblines,tail = divmod(len(li),nc)
stakes = nc*['%%-%ds']
form = ''.join(stakes) % maxel
itn = iter(li).next
print '\n'.join(form % tuple(itn() for g in xrange(nc))
for i in xrange(nblines))
if tail:
print ''.join(stakes[nc-tail:]) % maxel[0:tail] % tuple(li[-tail:]) + '\n'
else:
print
for nc in xrange(3,8):
cols_print(li,nc)
print 'mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm'
the result
len of li == 24
sea mountain desert
Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA
round flat sharp
nut banana apple
heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered
purple white atlantic
pacific antarctic Bellini
mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
sea mountain desert Emma
Cathy Kate HH VVVVVVV
AAA round flat sharp
nut banana apple heeeeeeeeeeen
tiger snakered purple white
atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy
Kate HH VVVVVVV AAA round
flat sharp nut banana apple
heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered purple white
atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy Kate
HH VVVVVVV AAA round flat sharp
nut banana apple heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered
purple white atlantic pacific antarctic Bellini
mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
sea mountain desert Emma Cathy Kate HH
VVVVVVV AAA round flat sharp nut banana
apple heeeeeeeeeeen tiger snakered purple white atlantic
pacific antarctic Bellini
mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
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