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

string = ""
name = raw_input() #The value at the field
length = input() #the length of the field
string += name
string += " "*(length-len(name)) # Add extra spaces

This will add the number of spaces needed, provided the field has length >= the length of the name provided