tableData = [ ["apples", "oranges", "cherries", "banana"], ["Alice", "Bob", "Carol", "David"], ["dogs", "cats", "moose", "goose"], ] def printTable(table): msg = "" for i, row in enumerate(table): width = list(sorted(map(lambda x: len(x), row)))[-1] + 1 table[i] = list(map(lambda y: y.rjust(width), row)) for i in range(0, len(table[0])): for j in range(0, len(table)): msg += table[j][i] msg += "\n" print(msg.rstrip()) printTable(tableData)