Printing lines vertically in python (not as list)

Question

I would like to print strings vertically. I am not sure how do it when it is not in the form of lists... I referred to the izip but guess that works only for lists???

Input
Output 
Variable
Constant

I initially had the above as a list and then I did

List = ['Input', 'Output', 'Variable', 'Constant')
for entry in List.strip().split(','):
    nospace_list = entry.lstrip()
    print nospace_list

The output of the above code is what I have given and now I want to display that as

I O V C
n u a o
p t r n
u p i s
t u a t
  t b a
    l n
    e t

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19920468/how-do-i-print-this-list-vertically — suhailvs, Jul 10 '14 at 00:38
`print "\n".join(" ".join(x) for x in izip_longest(*List,fillvalue=" "))` — mshsayem, Jul 10 '14 at 01:00
Hi this print it out vertically one below the other and not adjacent to each other... — Ram, Jul 18 '14 at 02:23
Hi sorry about the previous comment. This actually worked.. Initially I had the strings as separate lists and once I made them as single list it worked — Ram, Jul 21 '14 at 08:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '14 at 01:05

You seemed interested in writing your own algorithm for this so here is a (much less efficient) way to do it without using izip_longest():

>>> words = ['Input', 'Output', 'Variable', 'Constant']
>>> longest = max(len(word) for word in words)
>>> for i in range(longest):
...     print ' '.join(word.ljust(longest)[i] for word in words)
... 
I O V C
n u a o
p t r n
u p i s
t u a t
  t b a
    l n
    e t

This works by padding each word with spaces to the length of the longest word and then printing each letter from each word.

Printing lines vertically in python (not as list)

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