How to print a list more nicely?

Question

This is similar to How to print a list in Python “nicely”, but I would like to print the list even more nicely -- without the brackets and apostrophes and commas, and even b

Answer 1

The way Aaron has done it can work with more than two colums

>>> l = ['exiv2-devel', 'mingw-libs', 'tcltk-demos', 'fcgi', 'netcdf', 
...     'pdcurses-devel',     'msvcrt', 'gdal-grass', 'iconv', 'qgis-devel', 
...     'qgis1.1', 'php_mapscript']
>>> cols = 4
>>> split=[l[i:i+len(l)/cols] for i in range(0,len(l),len(l)/cols)]
>>> for row in zip(*split):
...  print "".join(str.ljust(i,20) for i in row)
... 
exiv2-devel         fcgi                msvcrt              qgis-devel          
mingw-libs          netcdf              gdal-grass          qgis1.1             
tcltk-demos         pdcurses-devel      iconv               php_mapscript