[Tutor] Field Width

[Peter Otten]

Jenny Allar wrote:

> I'm only a few days in to learning Python, so please bear with me.

Welcome!

> I need to line up the decimals on the printed information but I cannot get
> the text to look uniform at all.

>     print("The cost of the carpet is $", format(subtotal,'9,.2f'))
>     print("The flat fee is $", format(fee,'9,.2f'))

Just add some spaces manually:

     print("The cost of the carpet is $", format(subtotal,'9,.2f'))
     print("The flat fee is           $", format(fee,'9,.2f'))

This is usually written as

    print("The cost of the carpet is $ {:9,.2f}".format(subtotal))
    print("The flat fee is           $ {:9,.2f}".format(fee))

If this is not what you want you need to give more details; for instance: 
the above won't look "uniform" when it is displayed in a proportional font.