Aligning strings with .format()

Question

I have some strings that I'm printing out and I want to align them in order to make them appear neat.

colours = ["Red", "Green", "Yellow"]
quantities = {"Red" : 6, "Green" : 4,  "Yellow" : 9

Here is how I am currently printing them out:

for colour in colours:
  print("{}: {}".format(colours[colour], quantities[colour]))

However they come out looking like this:

Red: 6
Green: 4
Yellow: 9

When I would like them to come out like:

Red:      6
Green:    4
Yellow:   9

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '16 at 05:41

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(Correcting some error in you code)... You can use \t to insert tab

for colour in colours:
  print("{}:\t {}".format(colour, quantities[colour]))

answered Jul 03 '16 at 05:41

Aguy

Sorry but this doesn't work in my code, I have looked into using ljust() but I'm not sure if that would work... – William Fowler Jul 03 '16 at 07:53
Can you tell us what happens when you try to use \t tabs? – Aguy Jul 03 '16 at 08:07

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