Align two strings perfectly (python)

Question

Is it possible to align the spaces and characters of two strings perfectly?

I have two functions, resulting in two strings.

One just adds a " " between a list of digits:

digits = 34567
new_digits = 3 4 5 6 7

The second function takes the string and prints out the index of the string, such that:

digits = 34567
index_of_digits = 1 2 3 4 5

Now the issue that I am having is when the length of the string is greater than 10, the alignment is off:

I am supposed to get something like this:

Please advice.

I have managed to complete the assignment, which was to make a memory game - in which the player has to match the pars of number / digits. The only thing left for me to do is figure out how to align the index number with the digit itself. — Nume
– Nume, Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 5:48
Show your current formatting code. How are the numbers stored? — Mark Tolonen
– Mark Tolonen, Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 7:16

Mark Tolonen · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-23 02:18:00Z

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If your digits are in a list, you can use format to space them uniformly:

L = [3,4,2,5,6,3,6,2,5,1,4,1]
print(''.join([format(n,'3') for n in range(1,len(L)+1)]))
print(''.join([format(n,'3') for n in L]))

Or with f-string formatting (Python 3.6+):

L = [3,4,2,5,6,3,6,2,5,1,4,1]
print(''.join([f'{n+1:3}' for n in range(len(L))]))
print(''.join([f'{n:3}' for n in L]))

Output:

  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
  3  4  2  5  6  3  6  2  5  1  4  1

answered Jan 18, 2016 at 7:25

Mark Tolonen

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Thank you so much! That fixed my problem