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ennui
ennui

Reputation: 39

How to align lines of string/characters in python

A simplified version of my problem is as follows. The current code/output I have is problematic.

Code:

file.write("AAAA" + "\n")
file.write(num + " BBBBB") #num is a random number

Current output:

AAAAA
20 BBBBB

I would like to align the A's and B's so that it looks like this:

   AAAAA
20 BBBBB

Specifically though, I need the output to work for any number. I.e, "2000BBBB" etc.

Making it work for the example I have given is easy enough, I could just add spacing. The problem here is writing code that will essentially predict where the second line's B's will be located.

I hope that makes sense, thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1032

Answers (1)

Francesco
Francesco

Reputation: 977

This should work:

first = "AAAA" + "\n"
second = str(num) + " BBBBB"
file.write(first.rjust(len(second)))
file.write(second)

Check those: Python docs for rjust() and w3schools tutorial with examples for rjust()

Upvotes: 2

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