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I use this code to align the output 

template = "{0:20}{1:5}"
print template.format("1","bread")

1      bread
2      cheese

but what if I want the output to be like this

1 .... bread
2 .... cheese

can any one help me ?

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Have you considered adding dots to the template string? –  inspectorG4dget 35 mins ago

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According to the format mini-language specification, you need to add .< before 20. This would basically say format() to use . as a "fill" character.

Before:

>>> template = "{0:20}{1:5}"
>>> print template.format("1","bread")
1                   bread

After:

>>> template = "{0:.<20}{1:5}"
>>> print template.format("1","bread")
1...................bread
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Perhaps you should try

template = "{0:2}.... {1:5}"
print template.format("1", "bread")

1 .... bread

If you want a variable number of dots, you might try

template = "{0:.<20}{1:5}"
print template.format("1", "bread")

1....................bread
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