Print Columns From Python Dictionary

I have a dictionary of commits over a week. I want to print them out in a weekly calendar style of columns. { 'Fri': ['Commit: 04:15PM Move flex to mixin and do mobile-first q

Solution 1:

I think you can solve this without numpy and using only stdlib modules!

from itertools import zip_longest

d = {'Fri': ['Commit: 04:15PM Move flex to mixin and do mobile-first queries\n',
         'Commit: 03:52PM use padding to get the margins\n',
         'Commit: 10:09AM Remove field_prepared_logo height\n',
         'Commit: 03:15PM Add the final div to footer\n',
         'Commit: 03:05PM Merge from redesign\n'],
 'Thu': ['Commit: 10:25AM Design qa fixes on /clients page\n'],
 'Tue': ['Commit: 09:40AM remove transform and tweak span placement in '
         'hamburger\n'],
 'Wed': ['Commit: 02:19PM Change blockquote font and width\n']}

forrowinzip_longest(d['Tue'], d['Wed'], d['Thu'], d['Fri']):
    print(row)
# ('Commit: 09:40AM remove transform and tweak span placement in hamburger\n', 'Commit: 02:19PM Change blockquote font and width\n', 'Commit: 10:25AM Design qa fixes on /clients page\n', 'Commit: 04:15PM Move flex to mixin and do mobile-first queries\n')
# (None, None, None, 'Commit: 03:52PM use padding to get the margins\n')
# (None, None, None, 'Commit: 10:09AM Remove field_prepared_logo height\n')
# (None, None, None, 'Commit: 03:15PM Add the final div to footer\n')
# (None, None, None, 'Commit: 03:05PM Merge from redesign\n')

zip_longest obviates the need to "even out" your arrays...it just returns None where there was nothing to put. You could also pass fillvalue='' or similar to set the default value.

You could also use an ordered dict to avoid manually specifying the order of the days as I did.

Now that you have the individual rows, all that's left is an exercise in pretty-printing. The textwrap module is probably your friend here.

EDIT: This took a bit of doing, but here's the pretty printing taken care of as well

maxwidth = (80//len(d)) - 1  # set this to whatever value you want
wrapper = textwrap.TextWrapper(width=maxwidth, subsequent_indent=' ')

wrapped_commits = {k: [wrapper.wrap(commit) forcommitin v] fork, v in d.items()}
justified_commits = {k: [line.ljust(maxwidth) forcommitin v forlinein commit] fork, v in wrapped_commits.items()}

forlinzip_longest(justified_commits['Tue'], justified_commits['Wed'], justified_commits['Thu'], justified_commits['Fri'], fillvalue=' '*maxwidth):
    print(' '.join(l))

Here's the output from that:

Commit: 09:40AM     Commit: 02:19PM     Commit: 10:25AM     Commit: 04:15PM    
 remove transform    Change blockquote   Design qa fixes on  Move flex to mixin
 and tweak span      font and width      /clients page       and do mobile-    
 placement infirst queries     
 hamburger                                                  Commit: 03:52PM use
                                                             padding toget the
                                                             margins           
                                                            Commit: 10:09AM    
                                                             Remove field_prepa
                                                             red_logo height   
                                                            Commit: 03:15PM Add
                                                             the final div to  
                                                             footer            
                                                            Commit: 03:05PM    
                                                             Mergefrom        
                                                             redesign