I wanted to make a nice, pretty text file from some log info, but python didn't want to cooperate with string formatting.
I was trying something like this:
f=open('file','w')
f.write('%-10s' %string)
At the interactive prompt, the equivalent print command would give the desired result.
I got it to work by replacing f.write() with
print >> f, mystring.ljust(10)
This code has the same net result of printing to the file, but it actually does the spacing properly.
This thread gave me the hint I needed, though it looks like the poor guy never resolved his issue - he should have tried the print suggestion.
http://bytes.com/groups/python/25205-using-string-ljust-try-hold-fixed-width#links
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