from prettytable import PrettyTable x = PrettyTable(["City name", "Area", "Population", "Annual Rainfall"]) x.align["City name"] = "l"# Left align city names x.padding_width = 1# One space between column edges and contents (default) x.add_row(["Adelaide",1295, 1158259, 600.5]) x.add_row(["Brisbane",5905, 1857594, 1146.4]) x.add_row(["Darwin", 112, 120900, 1714.7]) x.add_row(["Hobart", 1357, 205556, 619.5]) x.add_row(["Sydney", 2058, 4336374, 1214.8]) x.add_row(["Melbourne", 1566, 3806092, 646.9]) x.add_row(["Perth", 5386, 1554769, 869.4]) print x