Yuck! Mixing f-strings and comma-delimited args to print() is pretty unreadable, plus hard to get right with the extra spaces between arguments. Stick to one f-string per print().

The obvious way to do this (f"${...}") doesn't work the way you want. Run this code:

# make some test data
data = (("alpha", 1.23), ("beta", 12.34),
        ("gamma", 123.45), ("delta", 1234.56))
    
for (text, val) in data:
    text_str = f"{text}:"
    print(f"{text_str:<10}${val:>10.2f}")
#                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^    print $ plus value, value right justified

This prints:

alpha:    $      1.23
beta:     $     12.34
gamma:    $    123.45
delta:    $   1234.56

Which does right-justify the numeric values, but the $ is in a column of its own.

The way to fix that is use the same trick the code above uses to handle the preceding text on each line. My code has to add the trailing : to each line text. It does that by creating a string with the text and an added final :. Then justify the whole string in the final f-string field. Like this:

# make some test data
data = (("alpha", 1.23), ("beta", 12.34),
        ("gamma", 123.45), ("delta", 1234.56))
    
for (text, val) in data:
    text_str = f"{text}:"
    val_str = f"${val:.2f}"
    print(f"{text_str:<10} {val_str:>10s}")
#                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    print right justified *string*

That gives you what you want.

alpha:          $1.23
beta:          $12.34
gamma:        $123.45
delta:       $1234.56

Your code won't need that trick for the initial line text, of course.

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Works great with f-strings too. More on stackoverflow.com

"Formatting doesn't seem to do literally anything at all." Well, all of Python's number formatting methods allow you to restrict the output to two decimal places and to right justify it. I suggest that you post your code so that people here can advise you what is going wrong with it. You can edit your original post to include it. Guide to posting code in this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/faq#wiki_how_do_i_format_code.3F More on reddit.com

Here's what I have as a reference. Basically a summary of the Format Specification Mini-Language . This would all go after a : in the f-string curly braces. So if you want a float with 2 decimal place precision, with * as fill and right aligned in a field width of 10 characters you'd do f"{val:*>10.2f}" [[fill]align][sign][#][0][minimumwidth][.precision][type] Fill: Add a character to fill with. Must be followed by Align flag. Align: '<' - Forces the field to be left-aligned within the available space (This is the default.) '>' - Forces the field to be right-aligned within the available space. '=' - Forces the padding to be placed after the sign (if any) but before the digits. This is used for printing fields in the form '+000000120'. This alignment option is only valid for numeric types. '^' - Forces the field to be centered within the available space. Sign: '+' - indicates that a sign should be used for both positive as well as negative numbers '-' - indicates that a sign should be used only for negative numbers (this is the default behavior) ' ' - indicates that a leading space should be used on positive numbers #: Flags alternate numbering formats; binary, octal, and hexadecimal output will be prefixed with '0b', '0o', and '0x', respectively. 0: Zero-padding. Equivalent to fill '=' and character of '0' Minimumwidth: Min width of the field. Precision: Decimal places for floats or max field size for non-numeric types. Type: Integers: 'b' - Binary. Outputs the number in base 2. 'c' - Character. Converts the integer to the corresponding Unicode character before printing. 'd' - Decimal Integer. Outputs the number in base 10. 'o' - Octal format. Outputs the number in base 8. 'x' - Hex format. Outputs the number in base 16, using lower- case letters for the digits above 9. 'X' - Hex format. Outputs the number in base 16, using upper- case letters for the digits above 9. 'n' - Number. This is the same as 'd', except that it uses the current locale setting to insert the appropriate number separator characters. '' (None) - the same as 'd' Floats: 'e' - Exponent notation. Prints the number in scientific notation using the letter 'e' to indicate the exponent. 'E' - Exponent notation. Same as 'e' except it converts the number to uppercase. 'f' - Fixed point. Displays the number as a fixed-point number. 'F' - Fixed point. Same as 'f' except it converts the number to uppercase. 'g' - General format. This prints the number as a fixed-point number, unless the number is too large, in which case it switches to 'e' exponent notation. 'G' - General format. Same as 'g' except switches to 'E' if the number gets to large. 'n' - Number. This is the same as 'g', except that it uses the current locale setting to insert the appropriate number separator characters. '%' - Percentage. Multiplies the number by 100 and displays in fixed ('f') format, followed by a percent sign. '' (None) - similar to 'g', except that it prints at least one digit after the decimal point. More on reddit.com