From: Michael Pope <map7@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T13:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: printing columns

I just worked it out, I was using a + instead of the proper , to 
separate my text.

EG:
wrong way
print "hi" + "fred".center(80)

proper way
print "hi", "fred".center(80)

Michael Pope wrote:
> I'm trying to print some data to the terminal in columns and haven't
> seen a way to do it properly.  I've tried "fred".center(80) to try and
> center the text at column 80 but when I start entering data before
> "fred" it starts to push "fred" over to the right.
> 
> Is there a way to print at a specific column regardless of what text is
> on the same line before hand or after?

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