Print statement alignment and padding

Question

Excuse me if the title is a bit misleading but I was a bit unsure on a relevant title name.

I trying to make a text box around some like the snippet here:

Die1 = random.randint(1,10)
Die2 = random.randint(1,10)
Die3 = random.randint(1,10)

if Die1 > Die2:
    print ("+------------------------------+")
    print ("|  Die 1:  |       |    Die 2  |")
    print ("|    %d     |       |      %d    |" % (Die1,Die2))
    print ("+------------------------------+")


else:
    print ("+------------------------------+")
    print ("|  Die 1:  |       |    Die 2  |")
    print ("|    %d     |       |      %d    |" % (Die1,Die2))
    print ("+------------------------------+")

This is all dandy if i get a result of 1 digit numbers :

+------------------------------+
|  Die 1:  |       |    Die 2  |
|    2     |       |      6    |
+------------------------------+

However twp digit numbers will give me this:, another space will be pushed out for two tens.

+------------------------------+
|  Die 1:  |       |    Die 2  |
|    10     |       |      2    |
+------------------------------+

I could do something like:

if Die1 > Die2 and Die1 or Die2 == 10:
    print ("+------------------------------+")
    print ("|  Die 1:  |       |    Die 2  |")
    print ("|      %d     |       |      %d    |" % (Die1,Die2))
    print ("+------------------------------+")

Etc... but i'm sure there is a more practical way of doing this.

Is there a way to use a single digit to represent the &s ?, and/or and some padding to allow for a second digit if its needed.

I Had a look at the Python Doc's on the matter and i read some padding options for 0's but nothing that could help me directly.

Answer 1

You can use the string.format function to pad with spaces: (note that this function works in both python 2 and python 3)

"|      {0: >2d}     |       |      {1: >2d}    |".format(Die1,Die2)

Inside the {}s, the 0 and 1 represent which argument is being referenced, the space after the colon is the padding character, > means to right-justify the text, the 2 is the width of the text, and the d specifies that the argument is an integer.

Example output:

|       2     |       |       9    |
|      10     |       |      12    |