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user1259332
user1259332

Reputation: 426

Python center string using format specifier

I have a string called message.

message = "Hello, welcome!\nThis is some text that should be centered!"

And I'm trying to center it for a default Terminal window, i.e. of 80 width, with this statement:

print('{:^80}'.format(message))

Which prints:

           Hello, welcome!
This is some text that should be centered!

I'm expecting something like:

                                Hello, welcome!                                 
                   This is some text that should be centered!

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 28

Views: 37289

Answers (2)

ecatmur
ecatmur

Reputation: 157534

You need to centre each line separately:

'\n'.join('{:^80}'.format(s) for s in message.split('\n'))

Upvotes: 32

EyuelDK
EyuelDK

Reputation: 3199

Here is an alternative that will auto center your text based on the longest width.

def centerify(text, width=-1):
  lines = text.split('\n')
  width = max(map(len, lines)) if width == -1 else width
  return '\n'.join(line.center(width) for line in lines)

print(centerify("Hello, welcome!\nThis is some text that should be centered!"))
print(centerify("Hello, welcome!\nThis is some text that should be centered!", 80))


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Upvotes: 1

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