The printout of the list has been processed several times. But sometimes we need a different format to get the output of list. This also has an application to achieve matrix transposition. Vertical list printing also has application in web development. Let’s discuss some ways this task can be accomplished.
Method # 1: Using zip ()
Using the zip function, we map the elements at the respective index to each other and after that we print each of them. This performs the vertical print job.
# Python3 code to demonstrate # Vertical list print # using zip() # initializing list test_list = [[1, 4, 5], [4, 6, 8], [8, 3, 10]] # printing original list print ("The original list is : " + str(test_list)) # using zip() # to print list vertically for x, y, z in zip(*test_list): print(x, y, z)
Output:
The original list is : [[1, 4, 5], [4, 6, 8], [8, 3, 10]] 1 4 8 4 6 3 5 8 10
Method # 2: Using the Naive Method
The naive method can be used to print the list vertically screw. using loops and printing each index item in each list in succession will help us accomplish this task.
# Python3 code to demonstrate # Vertical list print # using naive method # initializing list test_list = [[1, 4, 5], [4, 6, 8], [8, 3, 10]] # printing original list print ("The original list is : " + str(test_list)) # using naive method # to print list vertically for i in range(len(test_list)): for x in test_list: print(x[i], end =’ ’) print()
Output:
The original list is : [[1, 4, 5], [4, 6, 8], [8, 3, 10]] 1 4 8 4 6 3 5 8 10
How to display a list vertically?
StackOverflow question
I have a list of letters and want to be able to display them vertically like so:
a d
b e
c f
def main():
letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d","e", "f"]
for i in letters:
print(i)
this code only display them like this:
a
b
c
d
e
Answer:
That’s because you’re printing them in separate lines. Although you haven’t given us enough info on how actually you want to print them, I can infer that you want the first half on the first column and the second half on the second colum.
Well, that is not that easy, you need to think ahead a little and realize that if you calculate the half of the list and keep it: h=len(letters)//2
you can iterate with variable i
through the first half of the list and print in the same line letters[i]
and letters[h+i]
correct? Something like this:
def main():
letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d","e", "f"]
h = len(letters)//2 # integer division in Python 3
for i in range(h):
print(letters[i], letters[h+i])
You can easily generalize it for lists without pair length, but that really depends on what you want to do in that case.
That being said, by using Python you can go further :). Look at this code:
def main():
letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d","e", "f"]
for s1,s2 in zip(letters[:len(letters)//2], letters[len(letters)//2:]): #len(letters)/2 will work with every paired length list
print(s1,s2)
This will output the following in Python 3:
a d
b e
c f
What I just did was form tuples with zip
function grouping the two halves of the list.
For the sake of completeness, if someday your list hasn’t a pair length, you can use itertools.zip_longest
which works more or less like zip
but fills with a default value if both iterables aren’t of the same size.
Hope this helps!