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

data = [ ("1","2"),("3","4") ]
print "\n".join(map("\t".join,data))

Not as flexible as the ActiveState solution, but shorter :-)