Question

I’m doing some formatted table printing, and I was wondering how i could do something like this, I think it’s a situation for lambda, but I’ve never used it before so I’m not sure 🙂

print "{:^{}}|"*(self.size).format(for i in range(self.size),6) 
# self size is assumed to be 5 in this example, doesn't work, something along this line is needed though

Basically, do this(below) but in a cleaner way. PS. i know the below example doesn’t work, but you get my drift

print "{:^{}}" * 5 .format(humangrid[0][0],4,humangrid[0][1],4,humangrid[0][2],4,humangrid[0][3],4,humangrid[0][4],4,

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here’s my best guess:

print '|'.join('{:^6}'.format(i) for i in range(self.size))
...
print ''.join('{:^4}'.format(i) for i in humangrid[0])

If you really want to do it with a single call to string.format():

print '|'.join(['{:^6}'*self.size]).format(*range(self.size))
...
print ('{:^4}'*len(humangrid[0])).format(*humangrid[0])