Use tuple to provide value for string format
Format with tuple value
The following code shows how to use value in tuple to do the formatting.
width = 40# from w ww . j av a 2 s . c o m
price_width = 10
item_width = 30
header_format = '%-*s%*s'
format = '%-*s%*.2f'
print '=' * width
print header_format % (item_width, 'Item', price_width, 'Price')
print '-' * width
print format % (item_width, 'Apples', price_width, 0.4)
print format % (item_width, 'Pears', price_width, 0.5)
print format % (item_width, 'Cantaloupes', price_width, 1.92)
print format % (item_width, 'Dried Apricots (16 oz.)', price_width, 8)
print format % (item_width, 'Prunes (4 lbs.)', price_width, 12)
print '=' * width
The code above generates the following result.
