Fixing right alignment of string formatting

Question

I\'m trying to align the output of the list like shown:

But it keeps coming out like this:

My code for all of this is:

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Answer 1

You can't do this using plain Python formatting because the amount of padding depends on both strings. Try defining a function such as:

def format_justified(left, right, total):
    padding = total - len(left)
    return "{{0}}{{1:>{}}}".format(padding).format(left, right)

then simply use:

print(format_justified("Total cp:", total, 25))

where 25 is the total line width you want.