Don Parris wrote:
>  When I pickle a SQL result into a file (ASCII mode), it lays out the data in
>  an interesting format.  

pickle format is not intended for pretty-printing or readability for that matter. You have t
o write the file yourself in the format you want.

>  When I send it to the printer, I'd like to see it
>  arranged more like it is on the console screen - in tabbed columns.  None of
>  the tutorial type stuff I've seen even mentions printing files, or accessing
>  the files you create in a Python program.  I did manage to find an example
>  of a print function.

It sounds like you want to write a file for later printing. Writing files should be covered 
in any Python tutorial; the standard tutorial talks about it here:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html#SECTION009200000000000000000

Danny has given you some hints about how to do the formatting. This recipe has a very comple
te solution for formatting tables. You could easily change the example to print to a file:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/267662

Kent

>  
>  Here is some sample data from the resulting file:
>  
>  ((S'Everybody'
>  S'Anonymous'
>  Nt(S'James'
>  S'Austin'
>  S'704-111-1234'
>  t(S'Janet'
>  S'Austin'
>  S'704-111-1234'
>  
>  I would like to see something more like when the file is printed:
>  
>  Austin    James    704-111-1234
>  Austin    Janet    704-111-1234
>  etc.
>  
>  Is this a simple task, or am I jumping into deep water? :)
>  
>  Don

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