Using the f-string format becomes very easy nowadays.

If you were using

print(f'{token:10}')

And you want the 10 to be another variable (for example the max length of all the tokens), you would write

print(f'{token:{maxTokenLength}}')

In other words, enclose the variable within {}

In your particular case, all you need is this.

head = 'eggs', 'bacon', 'spam'  
w1, w2, w3 = 8, 7, 10  # column widths  

print(f'  {head[0]:>{w1}}  {head[1]:>{w2}}  {head[2]:>{w3}}')
print(f'  {"="*w1:>{w1}}  {"="*w2:>{w2}}  {"="*w3:>{w3}}')

Which produces

      eggs    bacon        spam
  ========  =======  ==========

I find using str.format much more elegant:

>>> '{0: <5}'.format('s')
's    '
>>> '{0: <5}'.format('ss')
'ss   '
>>> '{0: <5}'.format('sss')
'sss  '
>>> '{0: <5}'.format('ssss')
'ssss '
>>> '{0: <5}'.format('sssss')
'sssss'

In case you want to align the string to the right use > instead of <:

>>> '{0: >5}'.format('ss')
'   ss'

Edit 1: As mentioned in the comments: the 0 in '{0: <5}' indicates the argument’s index passed to str.format().

Edit 2: In python3 one could use also f-strings:

sub_str='s'
for i in range(1,6):
    s = sub_str*i
    print(f'{s:>5}')
    
'    s'
'   ss'
'  sss'
' ssss'
'sssss'

or:

for i in range(1,5):
    s = sub_str*i
    print(f'{s:<5}')
's    '
'ss   '
'sss  '
'ssss '
'sssss'

of note, in some places above, ' ' (single quotation marks) were added to emphasize the width of the printed strings.