Format output string, right alignment

Question

Try this approach using the newer str.format syntax:

line_new = '{:>12}  {:>12}  {:>12}'.format(word[0], word[1], word[2])

And here's how to do it using the old % syntax (useful for older versions of Python that don't support str.format):

line_new = '%12s  %12s  %12s' % (word[0], word[1], word[2])

You can align it like that:

print('{:>8} {:>8} {:>8}'.format(*words))

where > means "align to right" and 8 is the width for specific value.

And here is a proof:

>>> for line in [[1, 128, 1298039], [123388, 0, 2]]:
    print('{:>8} {:>8} {:>8}'.format(*line))


       1      128  1298039
  123388        0        2

Ps. *line means the line list will be unpacked, so .format(*line) works similarly to .format(line[0], line[1], line[2]) (assuming line is a list with only three elements).

It can be achieved by using rjust:

line_new = word[0].rjust(10) + word[1].rjust(10) + word[2].rjust(10)

Here is another way how you can format using 'f-string' format:

print(
    f"{'Trades:':<15}{cnt:>10}",
    f"\n{'Wins:':<15}{wins:>10}",
    f"\n{'Losses:':<15}{losses:>10}",
    f"\n{'Breakeven:':<15}{evens:>10}",
    f"\n{'Win/Loss Ratio:':<15}{win_r:>10}",
    f"\n{'Mean Win:':<15}{mean_w:>10}",
    f"\n{'Mean Loss:':<15}{mean_l:>10}",
    f"\n{'Mean:':<15}{mean_trd:>10}",
    f"\n{'Std Dev:':<15}{sd:>10}",
    f"\n{'Max Loss:':<15}{max_l:>10}",
    f"\n{'Max Win:':<15}{max_w:>10}",
    f"\n{'Sharpe Ratio:':<15}{sharpe_r:>10}",
)

This will provide the following output:

Trades:              2304
Wins:                1232
Losses:              1035
Breakeven:             37
Win/Loss Ratio:      1.19
Mean Win:           0.381
Mean Loss:         -0.395
Mean:               0.026
Std Dev:             0.56
Max Loss:          -3.406
Max Win:             4.09
Sharpe Ratio:      0.7395

What you are doing here is you are saying that the first column is 15 chars long and it's left-justified and the second column (values) is 10 chars long and it's right-justified.

If you joining items from the list and you want to format space between items you can use `` and regular formatting techniques.

This example separates each number by 3 spaces. The key here is f"{'':>3}"

print(f"{'':>3}".join(str(i) for i in range(1, 11)))

output:

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10