How do I put things in a table in python

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How do I make a table in python. I am doing this at school where I am not allowed any extra addons such as tabulate or texttable and pretty table so could you guide me on how to do this thank you it is for python 3.4 or python 3.5

Possible duplicate of [Python format tabular output](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8356501/python-format-tabular-output) — PM 2Ring, Nov 07 '15 at 18:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '15 at 18:00

This is based on @SOReadytoHelp's solution. I updated it to Python 3 and included an example.

def print_table(table):
    col_width = [max(len(str(x)) for x in col) for col in zip(*table)]
    for line in table:
        print("| " + " | ".join("{:{}}".format(x, col_width[i])
                                for i, x in enumerate(line)) + " |")


table = [['/', 2,    3],
         ['a', '2a', '3a'],
         ['b', '2b', '3b']]

print_table(table)

which prints

| / |  2 |  3 |
| a | 2a | 3a |
| b | 2b | 3b |

FWIW, SO ReadytoHelp's code actually comes from accepted answer in his link, which was written by [Sven Marnach](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8356620/4014959). But your code is better than Sven's. :) — PM 2Ring, Nov 07 '15 at 18:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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I should put this as a comment but as I dont have enough reputation I am posting this as an answer. Check this

def print_table(table):
    col_width = [max(len(x) for x in col) for col in zip(*table)]
    for line in table:
        print ("| " + " | ".join("{:{}}".format(x, col_width[i])
                                for i, x in enumerate(line)) + " |")

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Nov 07 '15 at 17:49

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Good, but you need parentheses around `print` in Python 3. – trolley813 Nov 07 '15 at 17:55
@hyst329 thanks for pointing out, made the change. – m0bi5 Nov 07 '15 at 17:57
@PM2Ring oops my bad, edited :) – m0bi5 Nov 07 '15 at 18:05
Joschua's version with `max(len(str(x))` is a little more robust, since it can deal with a table of any type of object, but yours won't work properly with non-strings. But that may be ok for the OP's requirements. – PM 2Ring Nov 07 '15 at 18:14

How do I put things in a table in python

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