String Alignment in Python f-string

Text Alignment in Python is useful for printing out clean formatted output. Some times the data to be printed varies in length which makes it look messy when printed. By using String Alignment the output string can be aligned by defining the alignment as left, right or center and also defining space (width) to reserve for the string.

Approach : We will be using the f-strings to format the text. The syntax of the alignment of the output string is defined by ‘<‘, ‘>’, ‘^’ and followed by the width number.

Example 1 : For Left Alignment output string syntax define ‘<‘ followed by the width number.

# here 20 spaces are reserved for the
# particular output string. And the string
# is printed on the left side
print(f"{'Left Aligned Text' : <20}")

Output :

Left Aligned Text

Example 2 : For Right Alignment output string syntax define ‘>’ followed by the width number.

# here 20 spaces are reserved for the
# particular output string. And the string
# is printed on the right side
print(f"{'Right Aligned Text' : >20}")

Output :

  Right Aligned Text

Example 3 : For Center Alignment output string syntax define ‘^’ followed by the width number.

# here 20 spaces are reserved for the
# particular output string. And the string
# is printed in the middle
print(f"{'Centered' : ^10}")

Output :

 Centered 

Example 4 : Printing variables in Aligned format

# assigning strings to the variables
left_alignment = "Left Text"
center_alignment = "Centered Text"
right_alignment = "Right Text"

# printing out aligned text
print(f"{left_alignment : <20}{center_alignment : ^15}{right_alignment : >20}")

Output :

Left Text            Centered Text           Right Text

Example 5 : Printing out multiple list values in aligned column look.

# assigning list values to the variables
names = ['Raj', 'Shivam', 'Shreeya', 'Kartik']
marks = [7, 9, 8, 5]
div = ['A', 'A', 'C', 'B']
id = [21, 52, 27, 38]

# printing Aligned Header
print(f"{'Name' : <10}{'Marks' : ^10}{'Division' : ^10}{'ID' : >5}")

# printing values of variables in Aligned manner
for i in range(0, 4):
    print(f"{names[i] : <10}{marks[i] : ^10}{div[i] : ^10}{id[i] : >5}")

Output :

Name        Marks    Division    ID
Raj           7         A        21
Shivam        9         A        52
Shreeya       8         C        27
Kartik        5         B        38