Python Formatted Output: Old and New

The new string formatter of Python 3 has more to offer than the old formatted output absorbed from C. The adjustment can be specified by either :> (move to right), :< (move to left), or :^ (move to center), which is quite intuitive. One can select character to pad spaces and no longer to have only whitespaces as padding characters. With or without precision specification, the new formatter is predictable and intuitive.