Printing Lists as Tabular Data

Question

I am quite new to Python and I am now struggling with formatting my data nicely for printed output.

I have one list that is used for two headings, and a matrix that

Answer 1

I think this is what you are looking for.

It's a simple module that just computes the maximum required width for the table entries and then just uses rjust and ljust to do a pretty print of the data.

If you want your left heading right aligned just change this call:

 print >> out, row[0].ljust(col_paddings[0] + 1),

From line 53 with:

 print >> out, row[0].rjust(col_paddings[0] + 1),