Le Monday 18 August 2008 09:27:33 Bruno Desthuilliers, vous avez écrit : > Cameron Simpson a écrit : > > On 18Aug2008 11:58, Beema Shafreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | In my script i have to print a series of string , so > > | > > | print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t" %("a","v","t","R","s","f") > > | > > | I need to know instead of typing so many %s can i write %6s in python, > > | as we do in C progm. > > > > I hate to tell you this, but "%6s" in C does NOT print 6 strings. It > > prints 1 string, right justified, in no less that 6 characters. > > C is just like Python in this example. > > > > | What are the other options . > > > > Write a small loop to iterate over the strings. Print a tab before each > > string except the first. > > Or use the str.join method: > > print "\t".join(list("avtRsf")) >
Not related to OP's question, but why one would want to convert a string to a list to make it iterable ? >>>[3]: print '\t'.join('azerty') a z e r t y > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- _____________ Maric Michaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list