Re: print "%s"

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18Aug2008 11:58, Beema Shafreen <be************@gmail.comwrote:
| In my script i have to print a series of string , so
|
| print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t" %("a","v","t","R","s","f")
|
| I need to know instead of typing so many %s can i write %6s in python, as
| we do in C progm.

I hate to tell you this, but "%6s" in C does NOT print 6 strings. It
prints 1 string, right justified, in no less that 6 characters.
C is just like Python in this example.

| What are the other options .

Write a small loop to iterate over the strings. Print a tab before each
string except the first.

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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Cameron Simpson a écrit :

On 18Aug2008 11:58, Beema Shafreen <be************@gmail.comwrote:
| In my script i have to print a series of string , so
|
| print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t" %("a","v","t","R","s","f")
|
| I need to know instead of typing so many %s can i write %6s in python, as
| we do in C progm.

I hate to tell you this, but "%6s" in C does NOT print 6 strings. It
prints 1 string, right justified, in no less that 6 characters.
C is just like Python in this example.

| What are the other options .

Write a small loop to iterate over the strings. Print a tab before each
string except the first.

Or use the str.join method:

print "\t".join(list("avtRsf"))

[Maric Michaud]

Le Monday 18 August 2008 09:27:33 Bruno Desthuilliers, vous avez écrit*:

Cameron Simpson a écrit :

On 18Aug2008 11:58, Beema Shafreen <be************@gmail.comwrote:
| In my script i have to print a series of string , so
|
| print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t" %("a","v","t","R","s","f")
|
| I need to know instead of typing so many %s can i write %6s in python,
| as we do in C progm.

I hate to tell you this, but "%6s" in C does NOT print 6 strings. It
prints 1 string, right justified, in no less that 6 characters.
C is just like Python in this example.

| What are the other options .

Write a small loop to iterate over the strings. Print a tab before each
string except the first.

Or use the str.join method:

print "\t".join(list("avtRsf"))

Not related to OP's question, but why one would want to convert a string toa
list to make it iterable ?

>>>[3]: print '\t'.join('azerty')

a z e r t y

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Maric Michaud

[gundlach]

The string.join() approach is better for your purpose, but FYI you can
multiply a string to repeat it:

In [2]: "%s\t" * 6
Out[2]: '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t'

- Michael

On Aug 18, 3:27*am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
[e-mail]:

Cameron Simpson a écrit :

On 18Aug2008 11:58, Beema Shafreen <[e-mail]:
| In my script i have to print a series of string , so
|
| print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t" %("a","v","t","R","s","f")
|
| I need to know instead of typing so many %s *can i write %6s in python, as
| we do in C progm.

I hate to tell you this, but "%6s" in C does NOT print 6 strings. It
prints 1 string, right justified, in no less that 6 characters.
C is just like Python in this example.

| What are the other options .

Write a small loop to iterate over the strings. Print a tab before each
string except the first.

Or use the str.join method:

print "\t".join(list("avtRsf"))