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

Just whipped this up for my problem, it just adds a space until the length of string is more than the min_length you give it.

def format_string(str, min_length):
    while len(str) < min_length:
        str += " "
    return str