format printing

Question

How to format printing stmt in python?

print"---------------------------------"

print"client:mount-point:logfile:status"

print"---------------------------------"

print clientname,mntpt,logfile,status

Currently it prints something like this :

---------------------------------

client:mount-point:logfile:status

---------------------------------

client01 : /some/path/mnt/1007/1 : /export/something/laks/specs_dir/log/client1/gc.log:running

How to make this output better?. Any suggestions

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543399/python-string-formatting — bignose, Mar 23 '10 at 13:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '10 at 12:59

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Take a look at string formatting : http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/typesseq-strings.html

answered Mar 23 '10 at 12:59

Michael Anderson

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '10 at 13:03

If you're trying to format a table, consider using other software for table formatting.

As an example, you can produce HTML with the print statements and view the table with a browser. Another option is to generate csv data to be viewed using a spreadsheet program.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 23 '10 at 16:55

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Stick some tab spacing in for a start?

'\t'

answered Mar 23 '10 at 16:55

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