Formatting a list of text into columns

Question

I\'m trying to output a list of string values into a 2 column format. The standard way of making a list of strings into \"normal text\" is by using the string.join

Answer 1

It's long-winded, so I'll break it into two parts.

def columns( skills_defs, cols=2 ):
    pairs = [ "\t".join(skills_defs[i:i+cols]) for i in range(0,len(skills_defs),cols) ]
    return "\n".join( pairs )

It can, obviously, be done as a single loooong statement.

This works for an odd number of skills, also.