How do I display a certain amount of words per line?

Question

So I have a list:

names = ['dog','cat','mouse','moose','rabbit','horse','apple','banana','orange']

I want the output to be like this:

dog cat mouse moose rabbit horse
apple banana orange

So basically a max of six words per line displayed when printed.

I'm honestly clueless where to start, because a for loop as such will display 1 per line:

for i in names:
   print(i)

output -->
dog
cat
mouse
moose
rabbit
horse
apple
banana
orange

check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python — avasal, Apr 10 '13 at 05:36

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:34

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You could use range with a step to split it up:

names = ['dog','cat','mouse','moose','rabbit','horse','apple','banana','orange']

for i in range(0, len(names), 6):
    print(names[i:i + 6])

answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:34

Blender

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I want to print the words so they're not a part of a list. – ajkey94 Apr 10 '13 at 05:36
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@ajkey94: Then join them together with `' '.join(words)` – Blender Apr 10 '13 at 05:36

eazar001 · Answer 2 · 2013-04-10T07:03:43.753

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Poor man's version:

counter = 0
for i in names:
    if counter == 5:
        counter = 0
        print i
    else:
        print i,
    counter += 1

edited Apr 10 '13 at 07:03

answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:34

eazar001

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Another way of `print '\n',` is simply `print` – jamylak Apr 10 '13 at 05:50
True, and i also made a mistake in my code too, fixing it up [= – eazar001 Apr 10 '13 at 05:53
now you have repeated `print i,` – jamylak Apr 10 '13 at 06:41

perreal · Answer 3 · 2013-04-10T05:59:56.577

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Using textwrap with a maximum 35 characters line width, which helps if you have words of varying sizes:

import textwrap
names = ['dog','cat','mouse','moose','rabbit','horse','apple','banana','orange']
for l in textwrap.wrap("\n".join(names),35):
    print l

This is useful if you want to right justify your output. I think splitting on the number of words is useful if you want to generate white-space delimited columns.

edited Apr 10 '13 at 05:59

answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:42

perreal

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-1 I could have 35 character words – jamylak Apr 10 '13 at 05:44
for example :) joking aside, this is just a variant in case the real intention is to align lines. – perreal Apr 10 '13 at 05:46
@jamylak, also all suggested duplicates point out evenly sized chunks questions. – perreal Apr 10 '13 at 05:49
alright, point taken. Add that info to your question so I can remove downvote – jamylak Apr 10 '13 at 05:53

How do I display a certain amount of words per line?

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