Is there a simple, built-in way to print a 2D Python list as a 2D matrix?
So this:
[["A", "B"], ["C", "D"]]
would become something like
A B C D
I found the pprint module, but it doesn’t seem to do what I want.
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Answer
To make things interesting, let’s try with a bigger matrix:
matrix = [
["Ah!", "We do have some Camembert", "sir"],
["It's a bit", "runny", "sir"],
["Well,", "as a matter of fact it's", "very runny, sir"],
["I think it's runnier", "than you", "like it, sir"]
]
s = [[str(e) for e in row] for row in matrix]
lens = [max(map(len, col)) for col in zip(*s)]
fmt = 't'.join('{{:{}}}'.format(x) for x in lens)
table = [fmt.format(*row) for row in s]
print 'n'.join(table)
Output:
Ah! We do have some Camembert sir It's a bit runny sir Well, as a matter of fact it's very runny, sir I think it's runnier than you like it, sir
UPD: for multiline cells, something like this should work:
text = [
["Ah!", "We do havensome Camembert", "sir"],
["It's a bit", "runny", "sir"],
["Well,", "as a matternof fact it's", "very runny,nsir"],
["I think it'snrunnier", "than you", "like it,nsir"]
]
from itertools import chain, izip_longest
matrix = chain.from_iterable(
izip_longest(
*(x.splitlines() for x in y),
fillvalue='')
for y in text)
And then apply the above code.