Print a formatted price list with a given width : Output Format « Development « Python

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Python » Development » Output Format Screenshots  Print a formatted price list with a given width width = input('Please enter width: ') price_width = 10 item_width = width - price_width header_format = '%-*s%*s' format        = '%-*s%*.2f' print '=' * width print header_format % (item_width, 'Item', price_width, 'Price') print '-' * width print format % (item_width, 'Apples', price_width, 0.4) print format % (item_width, 'Pears', price_width, 0.5) print format % (item_width, 'Cantaloupes', price_width, 1.92) print format % (item_width, 'Dried Apricots (16 oz.)', price_width, 8) print format % (item_width, 'Prunes (4 lbs.)', price_width, 12) print '=' * width                     Related examples in the same category 1.  String formatting: Integer, Decimal and Hexadeciaml 2.  String formatting: Float, Default Float and Default exponential 3.  String formatting: Right justify and Left justify 4.  String formatting: Fifteen and five characters allowed in string 5.  String Format: Force eight digits in integer 6.  String format: Five digits after decimal in float 7.  print variable into a string 8.  Formatted print: string 9.  Formatted print: float 10.  Print variables into a string 11.  Output float 12.  String output format: %e, %f, %g and 13.  String Simple Conversion: 14.  Use print as C printf: %d and %s 15.  Use print as c printf: %s 16.  Output with print: concatenate string, int float and list on the fly 17.  String Output Width and Precision 18.  aligning positive and negative numbers 19.  Define and ouuput string: 8-bit, 1-byte, 2-byte and 4-byte 20.  Print with format: %o, %x and %X 21.  String formatting 22.  Formatting Numbers: float 23.  Using form %(name)format, as shown here 24.  More than one format in the string