Python print indentations

Question

In Python 3.x how do you print an indent of white space, the method I am looking for looked something like this

level = 3
print ('% indent symbol' % * level, 'indented text')

should print:

            indented text

repeating answer from below: thanks to @sudo_coffee for \t

print ('\t' * level, 'indented text')

or maybe:

print ((' ' * 4) * level, 'indented text')

Condensation

Apart from the syntax error, what's the problem here? – Furze

Answer 1

sorry guys, think I found the answer, thanks to @sudo_coffee for \t

print ('\t' * level + 'indented text')

or maybe:

print ((' ' * 4) * level + 'indented text')

Condensation

Answer 2

level = 3
print (" "*level, 'indented text')

Yovonnda

Answer 3

To indent, or enter a "tab" amount of space, use the escape sequence \t.

level = 3
print ('\t indented text')

Shikoku

I have found the answer: print ('\t' * level, 'indented text') – Condensation

Answer 4

level = 3
indented_symbol = "    "

print '{} Indented text'.format(indented_symbol*level)

Weltpolitik

Answer 5

Python has an inbuilt module for this, textwrap, with the advantage that it will handle multiline strings (useful for printing error messages etc):

import textwrap

level = 3
print(textwrap.indent('indented text\nwith linebreaks', level * '    '))

Outputs:

            indented text
            with linebreaks

Carse