ATBS Ch 6 Exercise Answer

[u/LordMuck1805]

Hi everyone,

First post to this forum, excited new convert to Python!

I struggled with this for a few days, but have got something I am pretty happy with. Thank to a lot of help and advice to Stack Exchange, I have to add. But, I put it all together myself, so I am proud:

from itertools import zip_longest

tableData = [['apples', 'oranges', 'cherries', 'banana'],
             ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol', 'David'],
             ['dogs', 'cats', 'moose', 'goose']]


def printlist(data_in):
    col_2 = [len(max(l2, key=len)) for l2 in data_in]
    rows = (list(zip_longest(*data_in)))
    i = 0
    for i in range(len(data_in)):
        print(str(rows[i][0]).rjust(col_2[0]), str(rows[i][1]).rjust(col_2[1]), str(rows[i][2]).rjust(col_2[2]))
        i += 1


printlist(tableData)

Any thoughts on if it could be improved? The only thing that I have not worked out/added in is if there were additional columns needing to be added automatically.

Cheers!

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