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title: "Printing a formatted table"
section: "2.3 Formatting"
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# Exercise 2.10: Printing a formatted table

> Source: Practical Python Programming, `02_Working_with_data/03_Formatting.md`.

### Exercise 2.10: Printing a formatted table

Redo the for-loop in Exercise 2.9, but change the print statement to
format the tuples.

```python
>>> for r in report:
        print('%10s %10d %10.2f %10.2f' % r)

          AA        100       9.22     -22.98
         IBM         50     106.28      15.18
         CAT        150      35.46     -47.98
        MSFT        200      20.89     -30.34
...
>>>
```

You can also expand the values and use f-strings. For example:

```python
>>> for name, shares, price, change in report:
        print(f'{name:>10s} {shares:>10d} {price:>10.2f} {change:>10.2f}')

          AA        100       9.22     -22.98
         IBM         50     106.28      15.18
         CAT        150      35.46     -47.98
        MSFT        200      20.89     -30.34
...
>>>
```

Take the above statements and add them to your `report.py` program.
Have your program take the output of the `make_report()` function and print a nicely formatted table as shown.

## 关联来源

- [[summaries/03_Formatting]]