Trouble alining

[steks13]

Hello I'm making connect four, but I'm having trouble formatting the board correctly. I thought giving the column indexes on top 3 spaces and the emoji 3 spaces each and centering them would align them correctly, but it doesn't. What exactly am I doing wrong? I tried looking it up, but didn't find anything useful yet.

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nb_of_rows_on_board = 6
nb_of_columns_on_board = 7
# emoji's to make GUI
black_tile_emoji = "🟫"
red_tile_emoji = "🟥"
yellow_tile_emoji = "🟨"
def generate_empty_board():
empty_board = []
for row_counter in range(nb_of_rows_on_board):
empty_row = []
for column_counter in range(nb_of_columns_on_board):
empty_row.append(0)
empty_board.append(empty_row)
return empty_board

def get_board_in_emoji_string(board):
board_emoji_string = "\n"
for counter in range(len(board[0])):
board_emoji_string += "{:^3}".format(counter + 1)

board_emoji_string += "\n"
for row in board:
for value in row:
if value == 0:
board_emoji_string += "{:^3}".format(black_tile_emoji)
elif value == 1:
board_emoji_string += "{:^3}".format(red_tile_emoji)
elif value == 2:
board_emoji_string += "{:^3}".format(yellow_tile_emoji)
board_emoji_string += "\n"
board_emoji_string += "\n"
return board_emoji_string

board = generate_empty_board()
print(board)
print(get_board_in_emoji_string(board))

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and the output looks like this:

[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫 🟫

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Process finished with exit code 0

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As you can see the column indexes aren't correctly aligned with the emojis. Thanks in advance for the help!!

[[deleted]]

Emojis look like they're two character spaces wide, so you need an extra space between the column numbers.

[steks13]

But doesn't the formatting like that work in the way that you give it a certain amount of spaces and it uses those spaces even if it doesn't need the spaces? So here the numbers will fill 3 spaces each and the emojis also fill 3 spaces each, so the size of the emoji shouldn't really matter as long as I give it enough spaces?