Python - Printing a dictionary as a horizontal table with headers

Question

I have a dictionary:

import math
import random

d = {1: ["Spices", math.floor(random.gauss(40, 5))],
    2: ["Other stuff", math.floor(ran         


        

Answer 1

You can use string formatting:

print "{:<8} {:<15} {:<10}".format('Key','Label','Number')
for k, v in d.iteritems():
    label, num = v
    print "{:<8} {:<15} {:<10}".format(k, label, num)

Output:

Key      Label           Number    
1        Spices          38.0      
2        Other stuff     24.0      
3        Tea             44.0      
5        Fruit           5.0       
6        Textiles        37.0      
10       Contraband      1000.0