Trying to align my code properly when I enter "c" after purchasing all of my desired items. However, the alignment is pretty terrible. And I am stuck trying to print it out correctly.
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#🔒 Alignment of Code
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Trying to align my code properly when I enter "c" after purchasing all of my des...
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frank dagger
something like this. You can try the code and see what I am talking about.
jagged trellis
do you want to do it yourself or would it be okay to use a library to get it done for you?
main badger
^ that was what I was going to say.. seems a lot easier to build a dict and pprint it
jagged trellis
either that or tabulate to have a nice table
main badger
Yeah figured he didnt want to use pandas, is there another way to do it without loading all of pandas in?
frank dagger
im confused
main badger
So there are many modules that will take care of the printing for you, you just need to build the correct data structure and then feed that into the module. The one I refered to is pprint or pretty print
frank dagger
Oh ok, well I am new to this so I can just follow along is that's the case.
main badger
Sounds good, we just wanted to make sure you werent trying to do it yourself on purpose
frank dagger
But preferably I'd want to do it myself
main badger
So I wouldnt.. That is the benefit of python you can leverage a ton of peoples (who have WAY more experience then us) work instead of reinventing the wheel
jagged trellis
if you want to do it yourself, I just want to show you one syntax trick
main badger
Or atleast get some experience under your belt and then circle back
jagged trellis
!e
name = "John"
print(f"{name:<10}|")
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John |
you can use f-string with the syntax :<N or :>N (N - integer) to left or right align your text, so it always has at least N total length which gets filled with spaces (there is a way to choose what the filler is as well)
once the user selects all items, you could try to estimate the maximum length of any of the words that need to be printed and then left-align the checkout text by that number
frank dagger
you can use f-string with the syntax `:<N` or `:>N` (N - integer) to left or rig...
so in your example you used 10, but I am still trying to figure out what that number is doing.
jagged trellis
notice how there is a bunch of spaces after John in the string John |
frank dagger
oh ok
jagged trellis
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print(len("John "))
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10
i see
jagged trellis
the total length of whatever input you have + the spaces will be at least 10
frank dagger
so i guess for my case, I would continually have to guess with what number to use for my code.
something to kind of play around with for a bit it seems like.
jagged trellis
well the number for the item column is the longest word that was selected (which you can find with a for loop)
then cost is at the edge of the receipt so you don't need to worry about the alignment there
for qty you might want to right-align depending on how many digits the sum of quantities has
frank dagger
so dont worry about cost?
right align qty hmm based on the example i am going to try something:
qty_label = "qty"
print(f"{qty_label:>10}|")
I know this is not right AT ALL but you said right align lol
i just have to figure out how to implement in my code i guess.
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001 | Item | Qty
002 | ---------------------------
003 | Xbox One Controller | 5
004 | HP Touch Screen Laptop | 10
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qty = [5, 10]
items = ['Xbox One Controller', 'HP Touch Screen Laptop']
def find_max(iterable):
longest = 0
for item in iterable:
item_length = len(str(item))
if item_length > longest:
longest = item_length
return longest
qty_max = find_max(qty)
items_max = find_max(items)
#print the contents using fstring
print(f'{"Item":<{items_max}} | {"Qty":>{max(qty_max, len("Qty"))}}')
print('-' * (items_max + 1), '|', '-' * (max(qty_max, len("Qty")) + 1), sep='')
for i in range(len(qty)):
print(f'{items[i]:<{items_max}} | {qty[i]:>{qty_max}}')
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001 | Item | Qty
002 | -----------------------|----
003 | Xbox One Controller | 5
004 | HP Touch Screen Laptop | 10
honestly you could just hard-code it in there for now, try to get a simple solution working first, then add more stuff
frank dagger
ok ill give it a shot
jagged trellis
feel free to use my code as reference
frank dagger
ok thanks
so would it look something like this:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/GOCQ
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