#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Convert lines to columns in a text file
# Copyright 2005 Thomas Strathmann <thomas@pdp7.org>
#
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
  print('usage: %s <filename>' % sys.argv[0])
  sys.exit(1)

f = open(sys.argv[1])
lines = f.readlines()
f.close()
lines = map(lambda s: s.split('\n')[0], lines)
lengths = map(lambda s: len(s), lines)
longest = max(lengths)

for i in range(longest, 0, -1):
  for j in range(0, len(lines)):
	if lengths[j] < i:
	  print ' ',
	else:
	  print lines[j][i-1],
  print