How do you align text in a text file in python?
I have a plain text file that contains user login data: Show
I'm trying to print the data in left- and right-aligned columns:
How can I do this? This is the code I have so far:
tdy 29.4k10 gold badges52 silver badges56 bronze badges asked May 28, 2013 at 16:09
I would go for the new(er) print formatter with this one (assuming your fields are consistent). The print/format statement is pretty easy to use and can be found here. Since your data can be seen as a list, you can do a single call to format and supplying the correct formatter data you'll get your output. This has a bit more fine grained control than ljust or rjust but has the downside that you need to know that your data coming in is consistent.
answered May 28, 2013 at 17:21
Jeff LangemeierJeff Langemeier 9881 gold badge11 silver badges21 bronze badges 0
For the last field to match your example, you'll want to right justify it instead using rjust. answered May 28, 2013 at 16:21
SysyphusSysyphus 1,0715 silver badges10 bronze badges 5 As of Python 3.6+Use the modern f-string syntax:
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answered Dec 5, 2021 at 23:10
tdytdy 29.4k10 gold badges52 silver badges56 bronze badges
answered May 28, 2013 at 17:14
Hal CanaryHal Canary 2,03416 silver badges17 bronze badges How do you align text in Python?You can use the :> , :< or :^ option in the f-format to left align, right align or center align the text that you want to format. We can use the fortmat() string function in python to output the desired text in the order we want.
How do you structure a text file in Python?There are two types of files that can be handled in python, normal text files and binary files (written in binary language, 0s, and 1s). Text files: In this type of file, Each line of text is terminated with a special character called EOL (End of Line), which is the new line character ('\n') in python by default.
How can we align the text?For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), text is aligned with the left margin. In a paragraph that is justified, text is aligned with both margins.
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Align text left, center, or right.. How do you align text in a column in Python?Use the just() Function to Print With Column Alignment in Python. In Python, we have different methods for string alignment. We can align the strings using the ljust() , rjust , and center() functions. Using these, we can align the rows appropriately based on our requirements.
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