I am populating a listbox from a directory that looks like this: variable_dict = {"funny_long_or_short_variable_name_as_key": (2,45),......
the tuple represents a "card, line" pair. medf is a font object and a forward reference here. I write: for x in variable_dict: txt = x while medf.measure(txt) < 350: txt = txt + ' ' txt = txt + str(variable_dict[x]) and I use the txt string to populate the list box. At first glance, it seems to work, as the names are on the left, and the tuples are in a column... But if you scroll the listbox, the inherent error makes it appear as if the tuple column is a snake doing the twist. I tried using a tab but got a backslash - t in the text, and simply counting spaces is worse than useless. Is there a way to format this so it will line up with *any* font ? I would prefer not to give up and use a fixed width font - it looks so teletypish... A blank char of one pixel width would sort this nicely - but as the hilbilly said when he first saw a rhinoceros: " There aint no such animal! " - or is there? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list