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Allow the user to customise the columns displayed in `py list`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the py list command's --format handling and compare its single-item output with the existing JSON output. Define how comma-separated values such as tag,exe should be parsed and rendered, then verify that multiple selected fields appear in the requested order without breaking the existing single-value behavior.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I don't find the default display of py list particularly useful. The aliases take up a lot of space and aren't very helpful (they are easily deducible from the rest of the data). Ideally, I'd like to be able to choose more useful information to display in place of that column.

Describe the solution you'd like
The --format option allows you to display a single data item (--format=exe). That's fine, but it would be nice to be able to choose multiple values. Something like --format=tag,exe.

Describe alternatives you've considered
You can get this sort of report by piping --format=json into jq, or into a custom formatter, but that's fairly clumsy.

Additional context
Alternative to #86. The approach here is probably overkill, but I've filed it as an option in case changing the default format is unacceptable.

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