[Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:
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> At 09:07 AM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote:
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> You can right-justify in a format operation. You will have to do it in
> two steps since the string you want to right-justify is itself the
> result of a format operation:
>   line2 = "Or %d weeks and %d days" % (weeks, days2)
>   print '%50s' % line2
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> Instead of 50 you probably want to use the length of the previous
> line. You can insert this into the format using * for the length:
>   print %*s' % (len(line1), line2)
> print "This is a very very long line ending in %s" % "even more length"
> print "A short %s" % "line"

I think it would consist of

line1 = "This is a very very long line ending in %s" % "even more length"
line2 = "A short %s" % "line"

print line1
print '%*s' % (len(line1), line2)

In a function:

>>> def foo(string1, string2):
...     print string1
...     print '%*s' % (len(line1), line2)
...
>>> foo(line1, line2)
This is a very very long line ending in even more length

A short line

(as close as I can get it with non-monospace)
-Wayne