Return a formatted string #3

Question

I need a self contained function that does / returns the formatted string, rather than formatting the string after it is returned.
None of the other questions, here and here, were asking what I wanted for the keywords I was using.

Answer 1

Answering my own question

def right_just_string(string):
    # return a string that is padded by say 10 chars
    return str(f'{string:>10}')

thing = 'cat'
print(thing)
print(right_just_string(thing))

returns
cat
       cat

Yes it's simple but I was asking the question when my string and formatting was complex - I didn't even know it was possible