A simple function to Pretty Print a table in tabular format.
Table maybe a list of lists or list of tuples.
Justify and column width are optional parameters.
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | # Pretty Print table in tabular format
def PrettyPrint(table, justify = "R", columnWidth = 0):
# Not enforced but
# if provided columnWidth must be greater than max column width in table!
if columnWidth == 0:
# find max column width
for row in table:
for col in row:
width = len(str(col))
if width > columnWidth:
columnWidth = width
outputStr = ""
for row in table:
rowList = []
for col in row:
if justify == "R": # justify right
rowList.append(str(col).rjust(columnWidth))
elif justify == "L": # justify left
rowList.append(str(col).ljust(columnWidth))
elif justify == "C": # justify center
rowList.append(str(col).center(columnWidth))
outputStr += ' '.join(rowList) + "\n"
return outputStr
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