I'm trying to make a pattern looking like this: click here, it's a capital A made out of A's
I'm running into trouble getting the A's to space apart by four or five spaces (A____A). I have to use the format method, but I have no idea how to go about doing that. What is the easiest way? I tried to do something like this, but it says invalid syntax and I am very confused about how to do it right.
print('A',{:4d}.format('A'))
You need to wrap the format in a string, as in '{:4d}'.format(42).
Note that the d specifier expects an integer to be formatted, so '{:4d}'.format('A') would raise an error since 'A' is a string, not an int.
Instead, you remove the d:
print('A{:>4}'.format('A')) # or print(f'A{"A":>4}')
# A A
The > will right-align the 'A', so that the spaces go in the middle.
A simpler way, without bothering with the formatting mini-language, is to simply insert the spaces:
print('A' + ' '*3 + 'A')