Prettier Printing in Python

I’m also printing little reports for myself with python scripts, and often I end up with kind of ugly tables that look like this:

Hello 30
Hello World 40

Today, I finally took the trouble to dig into the python documentation, and it turns out to be quite easy to print prettier tables:

In [11]: for i in [["Hello", 30], ["Hello World", 40]]: print "%s %s" % (str(i[0]).ljust(20), i[1])
   ....: 
Hello                30
Hello World          40