Question

I’ve seen a question on justifying a ‘print’ right, but could I have text left and right on the same line, for a –help? It’d look like this in the terminal:

|                                                     |
|Left                                            Right|
|                                                     |

Answer 1

I think you can use sys.stdout for this:

import sys

def stdout(message):
    sys.stdout.write(message)
    sys.stdout.write('\b' * len(message))   # \b: non-deleting backspace

def demo():
    stdout('Right'.rjust(50))
    stdout('Left')
    sys.stdout.flush()
    print()

demo()

You can replace 50 with the exact console width, which you can get from https://stackoverflow.com/a/943921/711085