From 6dff8525fd5b1956b612e7acabd933351a79ba29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: codefiles <11915375+codefiles@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:01:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused format_cols (#4652)

---
 archinstall/lib/utils/format.py | 17 -----------------
 archinstall/lib/utils/util.py   | 23 -----------------------
 2 files changed, 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/utils/format.py b/archinstall/lib/utils/format.py
index 4d74c5c5..1edfa3c6 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/utils/format.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/utils/format.py
@@ -46,23 +46,6 @@ def as_key_value_pair(
 	return table.stringify()
 
 
-def as_columns(entries: list[str], cols: int) -> str:
-	"""
-	Will format a list into a given number of columns
-	"""
-	chunks: list[list[str]] = []
-	output = ''
-
-	for i in range(0, len(entries), cols):
-		chunks.append(entries[i : i + cols])
-
-	for row in chunks:
-		out_fmt = '{: <30} ' * len(row)
-		output += out_fmt.format(*row) + '\n'
-
-	return output
-
-
 def _get_values(
 	o: DataclassInstance,
 	class_formatter: str | Callable | None = None,  # type: ignore[type-arg]  # pyright: ignore[reportMissingTypeArgument]
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py b/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
index f94ca18c..b90137c0 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import string
 from datetime import UTC, datetime
 
 from archinstall.lib.pathnames import ARCHISO_MOUNTPOINT
-from archinstall.lib.utils.format import as_columns
 
 
 def timestamp() -> str:
@@ -24,25 +23,3 @@ def running_from_iso() -> bool:
 def generate_password(length: int = 64) -> str:
 	haystack = string.printable  # digits, ascii_letters, punctuation (!"#$[] etc) and whitespace
 	return ''.join(secrets.choice(haystack) for _ in range(length))
-
-
-def format_cols(items: list[str], header: str | None = None) -> str:
-	if header:
-		text = f'{header}:\n'
-	else:
-		text = ''
-
-	nr_items = len(items)
-	if nr_items <= 4:
-		col = 1
-	elif nr_items <= 8:
-		col = 2
-	elif nr_items <= 12:
-		col = 3
-	else:
-		col = 4
-
-	text += as_columns(items, col)
-	# remove whitespaces on each row
-	text = '\n'.join(t.strip() for t in text.split('\n'))
-	return text