How to pad a string to a fixed length with spaces in Python?

Question

I\'m sure this is covered in plenty of places, but I don\'t know the exact name of the action I\'m trying to do so I can\'t really look it up. I\'ve been reading an officia

Answer 1

This is super simple with format:

>>> a = "John"
>>> "{:<15}".format(a)
'John           '