Jacob (et al): Unfortunately at this point I'm rendering the text, not printing it (using text = font.render). So I need to know if there is a hard character or something I can type, since 50*" " (space) isnt lining them up right.
Thanks! ~Denise On 4/27/05, Jacob S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> def displaybalance(): > >> for score, name in mylist: > >> slip = 30 - len(name) > >> slip_amt = slip*" " > >> print "%s%s%s" % (name,slip_amt,score) > >> > >> (I did this with the print command to make sure it would produce what > >> I wanted, three strings for the three sample scores I put in this > >> dummy list). > > > > Yup, you did that. And actually, what happened was that string formatting > > was first used to create a string, and then this string was sent to the > > print command, which displayed it. Your last line is equivalent to: > > > > foo = "%s%s%s" % (name,slip_amt,score) > > print foo > > > > The only "magic" thing you can only do with print is the "print a, b, c" > > syntax. > > Uck. > > Try this. > > for score, name in mylist: > name = name.ljust(30) > print "%s%s" % (name,score) > > Or, if you prefer... > > print "\n".join("%-30s%s"%(name,score) for name,score in mylist) > > If you don't have python 2.4 > > print "\n".join([---]) # with the hyphens replaced with the above > comprehension > > Oh, and there is another cool thing you can do with print. > First off, print uses sys.stdout, so if you change it, print changes where > it prints. > Second, if you use the syntax print >>output,item0,item1,item2 > you can redirect manually where things are printed to. output has to be an > object which has a write method. > > i.e. > > a = open("myfile.txt","w") > > b = "This is the string I want to print out." > print >>a,b > a.close() > > gives you a file in the current directory with the filename "myfile.txt" > with the contents "This is the string I want to print out." > > Okay, I'm done again, > Jacob > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor