Print right aligned table column involving English and Japanese text in Python3

Question

I have a column consisting of English and Japanese characters and I need to print the column in right justified manner.

This is the column I am supposed to print :

column = ["通常残業時間", "bbbbbbbbb", "tttt"]

Normal way would be to get maximum length of string and adjust accordingly but the problem is that text is in japanese as well and width of a japanese character is more than that of an english one. How should I compare the string lengths in this case and print accordingly?

This is the required output :

通常残業時間
 bbbbbbbbb
      tttt

I am working in Python3.

Answer 1

You can use r.just on the last two items of column

column = ["通常残業時間", "bbbbbbbbb", "tttt"]

for idx, item in enumerate(column):
    if not idx:
        print(item)
    else:
        print(item.rjust(12))

通常残業時間
 bbbbbbbbb
      tttt