If Fortran identical formatting is desired you should look into the excellent fortranformat package by Brendan Arnold which reads or writes directly without translation through Python format strings.

option meaning example < align left, can be combined with width <12 > align right, can be combined with width >15: f: fixed point notation, combined with precision ...

f-Strings, introduced in Python 3.6, provide a more readable and flexible way to format strings, including inline arithmetic and formatting. Formatting Specifiers: The specifier %.2f rounds the ...