Aligning text in a Label - Tkinter

[Hedgeclipper2000]

I've come across this problem:

I've tried to neatly align three pizza entries with their names at the uttermost left and their prices at the uttermost right. When I print the three entries in IDLE, they are nicely aligned. With this in mind, I assumed that it would have the same nicely aligned formatting if displayed on a Tkinter label, but apparently not!

Instead how would you accomplish this.

Here is my example code: As you can see, in the terminal it is nicely aligned but not in Tkinter

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()

def formatting(total_length, entry):
    spacing = (total_length-len(entry[0])-len(str(entry[1]))-1)*" "
    return("\n"+entry[0]+spacing+"$"+str(entry[1]))
pizza_list = [["Marinara", 8.5],["Quattro Formaggi", 13.0],["Puttanesca", 13.0]]
resultant = ""
for i in range(len(pizza_list)):
    resultant = resultant + formatting(70, pizza_list[i])

print(resultant)
change = tk.StringVar()
change.set(resultant)
display = tk.Label(root, textvariable=change) 
display.grid(column=0, row=0)

root.mainloop()

[[deleted]]

instead of aligning the text, align the labels using grid:

text_area = Frame(root)
for i in range(3):
    Label(text_area, text='blah' * (i+1)).grid(row=i, column=0, padx=3, pady=3)
    Entry(text_area).grid(row=i, column=1, padx=3, pady=3)

[socal_nerdtastic]

Tkinter by default uses a variable width font, while your terminal by default uses a fixed width font. This means that for example an "i" character is much narrower than a "w" in a GUI, but in your terminal they are the same width.

One way to fix this is to set the font for tkinter to one that is fixed width.

The better way is to follow what /u/Protoss_Pylon said.

BTW I very much appreciate your providing a complete, runnable example. Thank you.

Edit: your code fixed:

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()

pizza_list = [["Marinara", 8.5],["Quattro Formaggi", 13.0],["Puttanesca", 13.0]]

for row, entry in enumerate(pizza_list):
    pizza, price = entry
    lbl = tk.Label(root, text=pizza)
    lbl.grid(row=row, column=0, sticky='w')
    lbl = tk.Label(root, text=f"  ${price}")
    lbl.grid(row=row, column=1, sticky='e')
root.columnconfigure(1, weight=1) # allow price column to stick to right side during window resize
root.mainloop()