Python f-string not formatting whitespace for object property

Question

I have an object with a property called key and using f-string I want to format it to have 8 whitespaces to the left of the string.

Here is an example:

object = {}

object['key'] = 'JIRA-123'

print(f"{object['key']:>8} should be 8 spaces to the right.")
print(f"{'But':>8} it isn't 8 spaces to the right.")

When this is run, this is the output:

JIRA-123 should be 8 spaces to the right.
     But it isn't 8 spaces to the right.

When the output I'm expecting is:

     JIRA-123 should be 8 spaces to the right.
     But it isn't 8 spaces to the right.

You can try it out here.

Answer 1

As mentioned in comments by @Stephen Rauch you are confused with formatting. Here is the explanation Hope you will find helpful.

>>> len('But')
>>> 3
>>> f"{'But':>8}" # output will be 8 characters wide 
>>> '     But'    # Since len of But is 3 left 5 length will be filled out by whitespaces in left
>>> object['key'] = 'JIRA-123'
>>> len(object['key'])
>>> 8
>>> f"{object['key']:>8}" # output will be 8 characters wide 
>>> 'JIRA-123'            # since length is already of 8 no whitespaces in left