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user2872699
user2872699

Reputation: 1

putting spaces in same line for loops

I have an assignment for programming, and I'm having trouble. I'm 99% done but it's the little things that are tripping me up. Here is my code:

a = 0
b = 0
c = 0

for h in first:
    a = LetterMap[h]

    print(a,end="")         

for h in middle:
    b = LetterMap[h]
    print(b,end="")

for c in last:
    c = letterMap[c]
    print(c,end="")

The output before this block and this block is this:

first middle last

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I would like it to be this:

first middle last

xxxxx xxxxxx xxxx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 259

Answers (2)

Blckknght
Blckknght

Reputation: 104712

Rather than printing out your characters one by one, I'd suggest using str.join and generator expressions to combine your translated sequences into strings:

first_str = "".join(LetterMap[c] for c in first)
middle_str = "".join(LetterMap[c] for c in middle)
last_str = "".join(LetterMap[c] for c in last)

Then you can print them with just one print call:

print(first_str, middle_str, last_str) # default separator is a space!

If you wanted some more sophisticated formatting of the output (rather than just spaces separating the values), you can use the str.format method to do whatever kind of formatting you want:

print('{2:<20}{1:_^20}{0!r:*>20}'.format(first_str, middle_str, last_str)

That will print the strings in "reverse" order, with the "last" one left-justified in a width-20 column, the middle value centered in a width-20 column with underscores padding it on each side, and a representation of the "first" value (with quotes and backslash escapes, as needed) on the right of the final 20-wide column padded with asterisks.

For example, if you three strings were 'foo', 'bar' and 'baz', you'd get:

baz                 ________bar_________***************'foo'

You can read about the string formatting mini-language in the documentation.

Upvotes: 0

mayabelle
mayabelle

Reputation: 10014

Try this:

for h in first:
    a = LetterMap[h]
    print(a,end="")

print(" ",end="")

for h in middle:
    b = LetterMap[h]
    print(b,end="")

print(" ",end="")

for c in last:
    c = letterMap[c]
    print(c,end="")

Upvotes: 1

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