how to make a formated print of list with list within it in python

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I have a class in python with 2 "main" strings and a list of strings in it with N size

How can I "nicely" format the print of it so i can print the pain list and it will look normal.

The expected result is like:

entry 1 : string1 string 2 <br>
liststring1 liststring2 .... liststring n

entry 2 : string1 string 2 <br>
liststring1 liststring2 .... liststring n

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entry n : string1 string 2 <br>
liststring1 liststring2 .... liststring n

Evan Hammer · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-14 00:51:52Z

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Let's presume your python class, Entry, has the following member variables:

Entry.string1  
Entry.string2  
Entry.list_of_strings

Then to print a list_of_entries:

>>> for entry in list_of_entries:
...     print entry, " : ", entry.string1, entry.string2
...     for s in entry:
...         print s,
...     print ""

answered Nov 14, 2012 at 0:51

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ev-br · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-14 00:30:05Z

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>>> l
[[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]]
>>> for entry in l:
...    print entry, ":", 
...    for x in entry:
...        print x,
...    print

Notice the trailing commas in print statements.

answered Nov 14, 2012 at 0:30

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engineerC · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-14 00:37:51Z

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Try the pprint module for easy printing of 2D lists, among other things.

import pprint
x=[[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11],['jkdfjkdfjkfdjkfdkjfdkdfjfkdjdkfjkdjkfd']]
pprint.pprint(x)

answered Nov 14, 2012 at 0:37

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