How do I format the width of a string with a computed runtime variable?

Question

How can I set 40

as a let say variable temp

which are computed on the fly and passed instead 40

in this format string:

{:<40}.format('aa')

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0x90 Feb 19 At 4:54 pm

1 answer

Radio- · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19T05:30:44+0000

Something like this should work:

>>> width = 40
>>> '{0:<{width}}'.format('aa', width=width)
'aa                                      '