How to align/ format output in python

Question

Hey I am building a class and in one of the methods the instruction is:

A long representation of the reviews for the movie, called longReview. This method takes no parameters. This method should return (as a string) a more detailed review of the movie.

Reference picture of correct format

Note that the colons must line up, and there is no space between the 5 stars and the colon in the third line of the review. You do not need to worry about aligning the numbers after the column – put a single space after the colon, and then the number of reviews of that type. The average review is rounded to one decimal place.

How would I build this so that my return output looks the same as that picture I know I would include elements like

def longReview(self):
    # #this is what I want it to look like
    # Dune (2021)
    # Average Review: 4.7/5
    # *****: 2
    # **** : 1
    # ***  : 0
    # **   : 0
    # *    : 0

    return "{} {}".format(self.title,self.year) /n "Average Review: {}/5".format(self.review) 

but I am unsure how to do the star thing and make sure everything is properly aligned

Answer 1

The best way to do it is to use string formating :

>>> print('{:<5}: {}'.format('*****', 2))
*****: 2
>>> print('{:<5}: {}'.format('****', 1))
**** : 1
>>> print('{:<5}: {}'.format('***', 0))
***  : 0
>>> print('{:<5}: {}'.format('*', 0))
 *    : 0

in the formating {:<5} the 5 means you want it to always take 5 caracters and the < means you want to align it to the left.

Complete doc here : https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language