produces a string from inFloat of width colWidth with
precision numbers of digits, if possible. If expFlag is True,
or if the requested width cannot be achieved with plain
formatting, scientific notation is used.
produces a string from inInt of width colWidth. If
expFlag is True, or if the requested width cannot be achieved
with plain formatting, scientific notation is used. inInt can be
either of types.IntType or of types.LongType (in the latter case,
the trailing L is NOT printed).
converts field values in delimited data input files:
* convert double quoted strings into single quoted strings
* escape mid-string standard string delimiters
parses lines of field values delmited by self.fieldDelimiter and maps
stringConvert on the resulting list. This is complicated, if
field delimiters are allowed to occur within strings; in this case
(safe set to 1), a second pass is made through the splitted input
line, splicing open strings together.
formats the strings passed in stringL to a table of width
self.lineWidth, with an indent of self.indent. The column width
is set to the maximum string width.