Printing list into fixed width strings in Python -

Printing list into fixed width strings in Python -

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in [3]: entr = [ 'atom', '1', 'p', 'c', 'b', '3', '42.564', '-34.232', '-7.330', '1.00', '105.08', 'p' ]

i'd create string fixed width using %. why failed? both lines contain 12 entries.

in [4]: buf = "%-6s%5d %-4s%3s %1s%4d %8.3f%8.3f%8.3f%6.2f%6.2f %2s\n" % entr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- typeerror traceback (most recent phone call last) <ipython-input-4-6c71c289664e> in <module>() ----> 1 buf = "%-6s%5d %-4s%3s %1s%4d %8.3f%8.3f%8.3f%6.2f%6.2f %2s\n" % entr typeerror: not plenty arguments format string

first should give tuple format operator %

"..." % tuple(entr)

second, should utilize %d numbers, not strings! so, need cast variables number. here short example;

"...%s ... %d ... %f " %(entr[1], float(entr[2]), float(entr))

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