Python List Help

[gibsonce]

Hello. I wrote the below code in Python 3. I am having trouble getting the \t out of my strings and making the items in the list stack vertically. Can not seem to figure this out. Please help.

#Mardi Gras Event Schedule
#Written by Charles Gibson in Python 3

#Begin Application

#Text string to give user instructions for input
print("Madi Gras Event Schedule")
print()
print("Dates: 02/10/2018 - 02/13/2018")
print("Format Example mm/dd/yyyy")
print()
#opt function
def opt():
  eventDate = input("Please select a date")
  if (eventDate == "02/10/2018"):
    print(febTenArry)
  if (eventDate == "02/11/2018"):
    print(febElevenArry)
  if (eventDate == "02/12/2018"):
    print(febTwelveArry)
  if (eventDate == "02/13/2018"):
    print(febThirteenArry)
   

# Date variables with event information strings
febTenArry = [
"Krewe of Iris Uptown 1000am",
"Krewe of Tucks	Uptown 1100am",
"Krewe of NOMTOC Westbank	1045am",
"Krewe of Endymnion	Midtown	415pm",
"Krewe of Isis Metairie 630pm"
]

febElevenArry = [
"Krewe of Okeanos	Uptown 11:00am",
"Krewe of Mid-City	Uptown 11:45am",
"Krewe of Thoth	Uptown 12:00pm",
"Krewe of Bacchus	Uptown 5:15pm",
"Corps de Napoleon	Metairie 5:00pm",
"Krewe of Athena	Metairie 5:30pm",
"Krewe of Pandora	Metairie 6:30pm"
]

febTwelveArry = [
"Krewe of Proteus	Uptown 5:15pm",
"Krewe of Orpheus	Uptown 6:00pm"
]

febThirteenArry = [
"Krewe of Zulu	Uptown 8:00am",
"Krewe of Rex	Uptown 10:00am",
"Krewe of Elks Orleans	Uptown 12:00pm",
"Krewe of Crescent City	Uptown 2:00pm",
"Krewe of Argus	Metairie 10:00am",
"Krewe of Elks Jefferson	Metairie 12:00pm",
"Krewe of Jefferson	Metairie 2:00pm",
"Krewe of Lyra	Covington 10:00am"
]
#opt function called
opt()  
#while loop to allow user to enter dates multiple times before closing
while input != "exit":
  opt()
#End of Application

Output:
Python 3.6.1 (default, Dec 2015, 13:05:11)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
   
Madi Gras Event Schedule

Dates: 02/10/2018 - 02/13/2018
Format Example mm/dd/yyyy

Please select a date 02/13/2018
['Krewe of Zulu\tUptown 8:00am', 'Krewe of Rex\tUptown 10:00am', 'Krewe of Elks Orleans\tUptown 12:00pm', 'Krewe of Crescent City\tUptown 2:00pm', 'Krewe of Argus\tMetairie 10:00am', 'Krewe of Elks Jefferson\tMetairie 12:00pm', 'Krewe of Jefferson\tMetairie 2:00pm', 'Krewe of Lyra\tCovington 10:00am']
Please select a date 

[Larz60+]

you can use replace, example

mystring = mystring.replace('\t', ' ')

[ichabod801]

The tabs are in your string literals. Do a find and replace to get rid of them, or go to where they are in the string and manually delete them and replace them with a space.

To make the items in the list stack vertically, just do a loop:

for item in dateArry:
    print(item)

[volcano63]

You use strings to describe your events - which is rather inadequate structure.

You may use dict for an individual eveny - but I would use namedtuple for event records and dict - for event collection,

from collections import namedtuple
Event = namedtuple('Event', 'event location time') 

mardi_gras_events = {             
    "02/10/2018":                                  
        [Event('Krewe of Iris', 'Uptown', '10:00am'),
         Event('Krewe of Tucks', 'Uptown', '11:00am'),
         ...],
    ....
}

(I personally would have used pandas - but that is a complex package, not recommended for newbies).

As for displaying - there's this tabulate package.

I have my own function that serves this purpose (well, it is rather involved)