Stack Overflow Asked on November 15, 2021
I have a list of lists in a file:
[ [ 'aaaaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ], [ 'aaaaa', 'bbbbbb','cccccc' ], [ 'aaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ] ]
aaaaa bbb ccccccccc
aaaaa bbbbbb cccccc
aaa bbb ccccccccc
I use it for some analysis but because of the lengths of the words, it is hard to read, I want to format it to look something like this:
aaaaa bbb ccccccccc
aaaaa bbbbbb cccccc
aaa bbb ccccccccc
Maybe with some generous spaces between columns.
I guess I can use .format
function but I tried and I found no solution.
I can only use Python 2.7.
my_list = [ [ 'aaaaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ], [ 'aaaaa', 'bbbbbb','cccccc' ], [ 'aaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ] ]
# max_lengths = [max(len(y) for y in x) for x in zip(*my_list)]
# Can do above and get max lengths for each a, b, c etc but let us just get one global max for a neater solution
max_length = max(max(inner_list) for inner_list in my_list)
with open(target, "w") as writer:
for inner_list in my_list:
l_justed = [x.ljust(max_length) for x in inner_list)
writer.writeline(" ".join(l_justed))
ljust adds spaces at the end to make the string length as specified value
Answered by vestronge on November 15, 2021
Tested with Python2.7:
lst = [ [ 'aaaaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ], [ 'aaaaa', 'bbbbbb','cccccc' ], [ 'aaa', 'bbb','ccccccccc' ] ]
widths = [max(len(j) for j in i) for i in zip(*lst)]
s = ''.join('{{:<{}}}'.format(w+2) for w in widths)
for v in lst:
print(s.format(*v))
Prints each column aligned to max width of string inside this column + 2 extra characters:
aaaaa bbb ccccccccc
aaaaa bbbbbb cccccc
aaa bbb ccccccccc
Answered by Andrej Kesely on November 15, 2021
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