Align text in python CLI

A small reminder on how to align text in python

English version

I have had the problem a couple of time, I saw the solution passing by at least once but I had lost it, so I am posting this for the lazy web and myself :-)

If you need to align text in python a bit like you would do tables, you can use the ljust and rjust methods from a string object.

Example:

>>> for cnt in range(3):
...     print 'foo'.ljust(10), 'bar'.ljust(10)
foo        bar       
foo        bar       
foo        bar       
>>> for cnt in range(3):
...     print ('foo'*cnt).ljust(10), ('bar'*cnt).ljust(10)
foo        bar       
foofoo     barbar    

You can see how nicely it is left align, but of course you can also aligned it on the right:

>>> for cnt in range(3):
...     print ('foo'*cnt).rjust(10), ('bar'*cnt).rjust(10)
       foo        bar
    foofoo     barbar

I have to port pkgdb-cli to use this!