Method multicolumn

Lib/pydoc.py:706–716

Format a list of items into a multi-column list.

(self, list, format)

                             ' ', '&nbsp;', '\n', '<br>\n')

    def multicolumn(self, list, format):
        """Format a list of items into a multi-column list."""
        result = ''
        rows = (len(list) + 3) // 4
        for col in range(4):
            result = result + '<td class="multicolumn">'
            for i in range(rows*col, rows*col+rows):
                if i < len(list):
                    result = result + format(list[i]) + '<br>\n'
            result = result + '</td>'
        return '<table><tr>%s</tr></table>' % result

    def grey(self, text): return '<span class="grey">%s</span>' % text