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[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010, Andrew Gould wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ben Duncan <bend at linux4ms.net> wrote:
>> I am writing some python programs to do various reporting.
>> Is there better ways to do headers and details line then something
>> like:
>>

I frequently do something like this:

headers = ('id', 'field1') # extend as necessary
lenid = 0
# compute max id length
for id in data.keys():
	lenid = max(lenid, len(id))
fmt = '%%-%ds %s' % lenid
print fmt % headers
for id in sorted(data.keys()):
	print fmt % (id, data[id])

I often use the '%(fieldname)s' construct in formats so things
like ``fmt % dictname'' work making it easier to get data in the
right places.

Bill
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