Loop print two list outputs into two rows

Question

I have two outputs which are lists:

Toprow = ['Value' , '+/-' , '%+/-' , 'High' , 'Low' , 'Prev' , 'Close']
Bottomrow = ['7,424.96', '+9.01', '+0.12', '7,447.00', '7,402.64', '7,415.95']

I want to output them so they look something like this:

FTSE 100 SUMMARY
Value         +/-       %+/-     High        Low       Prev Close
7,424.96     +9.01     +0.12   7,447.00    7,402.64     7,415.95

I believe it would be string formatting, but I'm struggling to figure out how to make it work for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Possible duplicate of [Printing Lists as Tabular Data](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9535954/printing-lists-as-tabular-data) — PankajPundir, Mar 17 '17 at 21:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '17 at 21:07

You could use the following snippet:

Toprow = ['Value' , '+/-' , '%+/-' , 'High' , 'Low' , 'Prev' , 'Close']
Bottomrow = ['7,424.96', '+9.01', '+0.12', '7,447.00', '7,402.64', '7,415.95']

for item in Toprow:
    print(item, (12 - len(item)) * ' ', end='')
print()
for item in Bottomrow:
    print(item, (12 - len(item)) * ' ', end='')

This prints out each item of Toprow separately, with some spaces to format it, based on the length of the item. The same happens for Bottomrow.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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There is a string formatting way of doing this as mentioned by leovp. Alternatively, there are packages that can help with better formatting; example and the link to the package used in that example.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Mar 17 '17 at 21:23

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