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

If the data is in the format you have provided, it is a little more work

>>> d = ['exiv2-devel', 'mingw-libs', 'tcltk-demos', 'fcgi', 'netcdf', 
...     'pdcurses-devel',     'msvcrt', 'gdal-grass', 'iconv', 'qgis-devel', 
...     'qgis1.1', 'php_mapscript']
>>> print "\n".join("%-20s %s"%(d[i],d[i+len(d)/2]) for i in range(len(d)/2))
exiv2-devel          msvcrt
mingw-libs           gdal-grass
tcltk-demos          iconv
fcgi                 qgis-devel
netcdf               qgis1.1
pdcurses-devel       php_mapscript