Python Print Table for Term and Definition with Handled Overflow - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to make a program that prints out a two column table (Term and Definition) something like this: (table width should be 80 characters)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Term | Definition
|
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| this is the first term. |This is the definition for thefirst|
| |term that wraps around because the |
| |definition is longer than the width|
| |of the column. |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|The term may also be longer than the |This is the definition for the |
|width of the column and should wrap |second term. |
|around as well. | |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
I have existing code for this, but it prints out "this is the first term" on every line because I have used a nested for loop. (Also tried implementing the textwrap module) Here is the code that I have:
# read file
with open(setsList[selectedSet-1], "r", newline="") as setFile:
cardList = list(csv.reader(setFile))
setFile.close()
for i in range(len(cardList)):
wrapped_term = textwrap.wrap(cardList[i][0], 30)
wrapped_definition = textwrap.wrap(cardList[i][1], 30)
for line in wrapped_term:
for line2 in wrapped_definition:
print(line, " ",line2)
print("- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -")
Can anyone suggest a solution? Thank you.

Answer 1

After a lot of (trial) & error & random youtube videos, the solution: (if anyone has a similar problem)
with open("table.csv", "r", newline="") as setFile:
cardList = list(csv.reader(setFile))
setFile.close()
print("+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+")
print("| Term | Definition |")
print("+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+")
print()
for x in range(len(cardList)):
wrapped_term = textwrap.wrap(cardList[x][0], 30)
wrapped_definition = textwrap.wrap(cardList[x][1], 30)
wrapped_list = []
for i in range(len(wrapped_term)):
try:
wrapped_list.append([wrapped_term[i], wrapped_definition[i]])
except IndexError:
if len(wrapped_term) > len(wrapped_definition):
wrapped_list.append([wrapped_term[i], ""])
elif len(wrapped_term) < len(wrapped_definition):
wrapped_list.append(["", wrapped_definition[i]])
column1 = len(" Term ")
column2 = len(" Definition ")
print("+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+")
for item in wrapped_list:
print("|", item[0], " "*(column1 - len(item[0])),"|", item[1], " "*(column2-len(item[1])), "|")
print("+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+")
print("* *")
Basically, I created a wrapped version of each of my terms and definitions.
Then the try-catch stuff checks whether the term is longer than the definition (in terms of lines) and if so puts blank lines for the definition and vice versa.
I then created a wrapped_list (combined terms and definitions) to store this the above.
With help from this video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BRuhqEb2Q), I formatted the table.
Hope this helped anyone struggling with a similar problem - this can be applied to any number of columns in a table, and any length of csv file.