On 2007-10-19, marc wyburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would l like to write some data to a text file. I want to write the
>> data with whitespace or tabs in between so that I create tabular
>> columns like in a spreadsheet. How can I do this in python.
>> (btw, I'm new to python)
>>
>> names = ['John','Steve','asimov','fred','jim']
>> ## output I would like in txt file : John Steve
>> asimov fred jim
>>
>> f=open('/User/home/Documents/programming/python/test.txt','w')
>> for x in range(len(names)):
>> f.write(tags[x])
>> f.close()
>
> I'm not sure exactly but you'll probably need to find out what the
> ASCII code is for a tab.
You don't need to know the ASCII code. Just use "\t":
print "%s\t%s\t%s" % (1,"two",3)
If you fixed column spacing with spaces instead of tabs:
print "%-8s%-8s%-8s" % (1,"two",3)
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