output formating

[mcmxl22]

I left the code as raw text because it would not format correctly in code brackets.
I am wondering if there is a way to get this to print out the letters in the diamond pattern I set up?

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import time

def red1():
   for i in range(7):
       time.sleep(1)
       formation = '''{}
                       {}   {}
                          {}'''.format('R','G','G','R')
       print "%s\r" % formation,

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current output:

Output:
R
                             G  G
R                       R

Desired output:

Output:
   R
G     G
   R

[zivoni]

You need to put correct number of spaces into your formation string, inside triple quotes there is no indentation, so you need to use something like

     formation = '''  {}
{}   {}
 {}'''.format('R', 'G', 'G', 'R')

or

     formation = "  {}\n{}   {}\n  {}".format('R', 'G', 'G', 'R')

And you can add your carriage return \r to end of formation string to avoid second string formatting.

[buran]

>>> print ' {} \n{} {}\n {} '.format('R', 'G', 'G', 'R')
 R 
G G
 R 
>>> print '{: ^3}\n{} {}\n{: ^3}'.format('R', 'G', 'G', 'R')
 R 
G G
 R