Formatting output of CSV file in Python

Question

I am creating a very rudimentary \"Address Book\" program in Python. I am grabbing contact data from a CSV file, the contents of which looks like the following example:

Answer 1

You could use format to left justify your output. For example,

f = open("contactlist.csv")
csv_f = csv.reader(f)
for row in csv_f:
    print('{:<15}  {:<15}  {:<20} {:<25}'.format(*row))

Output:

Name             Phone            Company              Email                    
Elon Musk        454-6723         SpaceX               emusk@spacex.com         
Larry Page       853-0653         Google               lpage@gmail.com          
Tim Cook         133-0419         Apple                tcook@apple.com          
Steve Ballmer    456-7893         Developers!          sballmer@bluescreen.com  

You can read more about format here. The < symbol left-aligns the text, and the number specifies the width of the string. Each {} can include a positional argument before the colon : - if they are omitted, the strings will appear in the order of the arguments in the unpacked list row.