How to Print “Pretty” String Output in Python

Question

I have a list of dicts with the fields classid, dept, coursenum, area, and title from a sql query. I would like to output the values in a human readable format. I was thinki

Answer 1

You can simply left justify the string to a certain number of characters if you want to keep it simple:

print string1.ljust(20) + string2.ljust(20)