This is similar to How to print a list in Python “nicely”, but I would like to print the list even more nicely -- without the brackets and apostrophes and commas, and even better in columns.
foolist = ['exiv2-devel', 'mingw-libs', 'tcltk-demos', 'fcgi', 'netcdf',
'pdcurses-devel', 'msvcrt', 'gdal-grass', 'iconv', 'qgis-devel',
'qgis1.1', 'php_mapscript']
evenNicerPrint(foolist)
Desired result:
exiv2-devel msvcrt
mingw-libs gdal-grass
tcltk-demos iconv
fcgi qgis-devel
netcdf qgis1.1
pdcurses-devel php_mapscript
thanks!
Although not designed for it, the standard-library module in Python 3 cmd has a utility for printing a list of strings in multiple columns
import cmd
cli = cmd.Cmd()
cli.columnize(foolist, displaywidth=40)
Output:
exiv2-devel msvcrt
mingw-libs gdal-grass
tcltk-demos iconv
fcgi qgis-devel
netcdf qgis1.1
pdcurses-devel php_mapscript
You even then have the option of specifying the output location, with cmd.Cmd(stdout=my_stream)