Python spacing and aligning strings

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I am trying to add spacing to align text in between two strings vars without using            to do so  Trying to get the text to look like this  with the second column being aligned   Location  10-10-10-10       Revision  1 District  Tower             Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD                   Time  10 15   Currently have it coded like this  just using spaces      Location      Location                   Revision      Revision     n    I tried working with string rjust  amp  srting ljust but to no avail   Suggestions

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You can use expandtabs to specify the tabstop  like this    gt  gt  gt  print   Location    10-10-10-10    t    Revision  1  expandtabs 30    gt  gt  gt  print   District  Tower    t    Date  May 16  2012  expandtabs 30    Output  Location 10-10-10-10          Revision  1 District  Tower               Date  May 16  2012

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Resurrecting another topic  but this may come in handy for some   With a little bit of inspiration from https   pyformat info you can build a method to get a Table of Content  TOC  style printout     Define parameters Location    10-10-10-10  Revision   1 District    Tower  MyDate    May 16  2012  MyUser    LOD  MyTime    10 15     This is just one way to arrange the data data           Location    Location   Revision   str Revision          District    District   Date    MyDate         User    MyUser  Time    MyTime       The  Table of Content   TOC  style print function def print table line key val space char val loc         key         This would be the TOC item equivalent       val         This would be the TOC page number equivalent       space char  This is the spacing character between key and val  often a dot for a TOC   must be  gt   5       val loc     This is the location in the string where the first character of val would be located      val loc   max 5 val loc       if  val loc  lt   len key              if val loc is within the space of key  truncate key and         cut str          str val loc-4              key   cut str format key        space char      space str        space char   gt   str val loc-len key  len str val            print key space str format str val       Examples for d in data      print table line d 0  d 1      30   print   n   for d in data      print table line d 0  d 1      25   print   n   for d in data      print table line d 0  d 1      20    The resulting output is as follows   Location  10-10-10-10         Revision 1 District  Tower               Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD                     Time  10 15   Location  10-10-10-10    Revision 1 District  Tower          Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD                Time  10 15   Location  10-10-    Revision 1 District  Tower     Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD           Time  10 15

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You should be able to use the format method    Location   0 20  Revision  1   format Location Revision    You will have to figure out the of the format length for each line depending on the length of the label   The User line will need a wider format width than the Location or District lines

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Try   s and  - s and prefix each string with the column width    gt  gt  gt  print  Location   - s  Revision   s     20  10-10-10-10   1   Location  10-10-10-10           Revision  1  gt  gt  gt  print  District   - s  Date   s     20  Tower   May 16  2012   District  Tower                 Date  May 16  2012

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As of Python 3 6  we have a better option  f-strings   gt  gt  gt  print f quot   Location      location  lt 25  Revision   revision  quot    gt  gt  gt  print f quot   District      district  lt 25  Date   date  quot    gt  gt  gt  print f quot   User      user  lt 25  Time   time  quot    Output  Location  10-10-10-10     Revision  1 District  Tower           Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD                 Time  10 15  Since everything within the curly brackets is evaluated at runtime  we can enter both the string  Location    concatenated with the variable location  Using   lt 25 places the entire concatenated string into a box 25 characters long  and the  lt  designates that you want it left aligned  That way  the second column always starts after those 25 characters reserved for the first column  Another benefit here is that you don t have to count the characters in your format string  Using 25 will work for all of them  provided that 25 is long enough to contain all of the characters in your left column  https   realpython com python-f-strings  explains the benefits of f-strings over previous options  https   medium com  NirantK best-of-python3-6-f-strings-41f9154983e explains how to use  lt    gt   and   for left  right  and center aligned

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IronMensan s format method answer is the way to go   But in the interest of answering your question about ljust    gt  gt  gt  def printit            print  Location  10-10-10-10  ljust 40     Revision  1          print  District  Tower  ljust 40     Date  May 16  2012          print  User  LOD  ljust 40     Time  10 15       gt  gt  gt  printit   Location  10-10-10-10                   Revision  1 District  Tower                         Date  May 16  2012 User  LOD                               Time  10 15   Edit to note this method doesn t require you to know how long your strings are    format   may also  but I m not familiar enough with it to say    gt  gt  gt  uname  LOD   gt  gt  gt   User      format uname  ljust 40     Time  10 15   User  LOD                               Time  10 15   gt  gt  gt  uname  Tiddlywinks   gt  gt  gt   User      format uname  ljust 40     Time  10 15   User  Tiddlywinks                       Time  10 15

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