Converting Python 3.6.5 List to a table

Question

I am currently working on a project and I need help on converting a list to a table. I have figured it out one way but there has to be a shorter and a cleaner way of doing it an

Answer 1

Try to use one of many popular packages available to print tabular o/p. My suggestion is to use tabulate

from tabulate import tabulate
sales_persons_list = list('ABCDE')
sales_amounts_list = list('12345')
print (tabulate(zip(sales_persons_list, sales_amounts_list), tablefmt="plain"))

Output

A  1
B  2
C  3
D  4
E  5

Answer 2

this code output equals your code output :)

sales_persons_list = [input('What is the name of the sales person?: ') for i in range(5)]
print(sales_persons_list)
sales_amounts_list = [
    float(input('How much did {} make in sales?:'.format(sales_persons_list[i]))) for i in range(len(sales_persons_list))]
print(sales_amounts_list)
print("%-15s %-15s" %("Salespeople","Sales Amount"))
for i in range(len(sales_amounts_list)):
    print("%-15s %-15s" %(sales_persons_list[i],sales_amounts_list[i]))
print("%-15s %-15s" %("Totals", sum(sales_amounts_list)))

show list as table code:

print("%-15s %-15s" %("Salespeople","Sales Amount"))
for i in range(len(sales_amounts_list)):
    print("%-15s %-15s"%(sales_persons_list[i],sales_amounts_list[i]))
print("%-15s %-15s" %("Totals", sum(sales_amounts_list)))

output

Salespeople     Sales Amount
a               1222.0
aa              1111.0
aaa             2222.0
aaaaa           3333.0
aaaaaa          1133.0
Totals          9021.0

Answer 3

Try this:

def displaySalesReport(sales_persons_list, sales_amounts_list):
    Total_Sales = sum(sales_amounts_list)
    print("%-15s %-15s" %("Salespeople","Sales Amount"))
    for s_person, s_amount in zip(sales_persons_list, sales_amounts_list):
        print("%-15s %-15s" % (s_person, s_amount))
    print("%-15s %-15s" %("Totals", Total_Sales))

This is a simplified version of your code, you could also use Python Pandas to create a table, Pandas is the best for data in tabular form but it provides much more than you need:

import pandas as pd

data = {'Salespeople': sales_persons_list, 'Sales Amount': sales_amounts_list}
df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)
df.append({'Sales Amount': Total}, index="Total")
print(df)

My code is pseudo you have to modify it to fit your need.