the example starts simply with field formatted as decimal value it then adds thousands separator to the output the next step is to make the field wider than needed to hold the data and to center the data within the field finallythe field has an asterisk added to pad the output of coursethere are other data types in the example the next step is to display the same data in fixed-point format the example also shows the output in both uppercase and lowercase hexadecimal format the uppercase output is right aligned and the lowercase output is left aligned finallythe example shows how you can use numbered fields to your advantage in this caseit creates an interesting string output that repeats one of the input values choose runrun module you see python shell window open the application outputs data in various formsas shown in figure - figure - use formatting to present data in precisely the form you want