On Jul 15, 9:59 am, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > On 15/07/2010 08:45, Bruce wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to create a word doc using win32com. I don't get the same > > whitespace as when printing the same stuff in the dos window. At the > > terminal I manage to line up the second column like > > > apples 5 > > pears 7 > > > I do this by adding whitespace characters to the strings in the first > > column so that their length is equal to that of the longest string in > > the first column. > > > I print the excact same string to word. but in the word doc somehting > > happens that messes things up like this : > > > apples 5 > > pears 7 > > > Needless to say, this is extremely frustrating. But why does it > > happen, and how can I align the column in word? > > Couple of things which will help us to help you: > > 1) Consider what's going on *without* Python: if you take the exact > same text and spaces and type it into a Word document, does the same > thing happen?
Yes. Now using courier new. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list