[Tutor] Question About the .format Method.

[Peter Otten]

Bryon Adams wrote:

> Hello,
>      Working on a simple function to get an IP address and make it look
> pretty for the PyNet course. I'm wondering if there's way to evenly
> space text with the string.format() method similar to how I'm doing it
> with the % operator. The last two prints keep everything left aligned
> and 20 spaces wide. Is there a way to accomplish this with the .format()
> method that I use in the first print function?

You can left-align, center or right-align with format():

>>> print("| {:<12} | {:^12} | {:>12} |".format("left", "center", "right"))
| left         |    center    |        right |

The default is right-align for numbers and left-align for strings:

>>> "{:12}".format(42)
'          42'
>>> "{:12}".format("42")
'42          '

You can find the details here:

<https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/string.html#formatspec>