Track 7 · Lesson 6 of 11

Formatting text reports

Produce aligned tables and tidy reports with format specifications, str.format(), multi-line strings and the textwrap module.

You will be able to

• Write format specifications with fill, alignment, width, precision, sign and thousands separators
• Compute column widths from the data and build an aligned text table
• Use str.format() templates with numbered and named fields, and say when they beat f-strings
• Write multi-line strings and wrap, indent and dedent paragraphs with textwrap