columnify

Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Installation
• API
  • Methods
• License

Quick Start

Source

import shutil

import columnify


given: list[str] = [
  "Canidae",
  "Felidae",
  "Cat",
  "Cattle",
  "Dog",
  "Donkey",
  "Goat",
  "Guinea pig",
  "Horse",
  "Pig",
  "Rabbit",
  "Fancy rat varieties",
  "laboratory rat strains",
]

output: str = columnify.columnify(given, shutil.get_terminal_size().columns)

print(output)

Result

Canidae  Cat     Dog     Goat        Horse  Rabbit               laboratory rat strains
Felidae  Cattle  Donkey  Guinea pig  Pig    Fancy rat varieties

Installation

pip install columnify

API

Methods

output: str = \
    columnify(
        items: list[str],
        line_width: int,
        indent: int = 0,
        delimiter: str = '  ',
        horizon_first: bool = False) -> str

License

columnify is distributed under the terms of the MPL-2.0 license.