Python print list in tabular format

Question

How can I print items in a list present in a dictionary in tabular format?

print('{:>0}{:>10}{:>10}{:>20}'.format('ID','Name','Votes','% of Total Vote'))

print("\n".join("{}\t{}".format(key, value) for key, value in dct.items()))

I am using the above code and getting output like this. I also printed a dictionary on the first line of output.

Answer 1

You could '{:>0}{:>10}{:>10}{:>20}' also to print rows with values.

'{:>0}{:>10}{:>10}{:>20}'.format(key, *value)

You can even assign pattern to variable to simply replace it

dct = {1: ['ankit', 32, 37], 2:['asfkjld', 54, 62]}

pattern = '{:>0}{:>10}{:>10}{:>20}'       

print(pattern.format('ID','Name','Votes','% of Total Vote'))

for key, value in dct.items():
    print(pattern.format(key, *value))

Result:

ID      Name     Votes     % of Total Vote
1     ankit        32                  37
2   asfkjld        54                  62

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For something more complex you could use special modules.

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Or you could keep it as pandas.DataFrame because it has many useful functions.

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

dct = {1: ['ankit', 32, 37], 2:['asfkjld', 54, 62]}

df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(dct, orient='index')
df.columns = ['Name','Votes','% of Total Vote']

# --- display text ---

print(df)

print('---')
print('Total Votes:', df['Votes'].sum())
print('Total   %  :', df['% of Total Vote'].sum())

# --- display plot ---

df.plot.bar(x='Name')
plt.show()

Result:

      Name  Votes  % of Total Vote
1    ankit     32               37
2  asfkjld     54               62
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Total Votes: 86
Total   %  : 99