Format string to exact length

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From the ‘budget.py’ py4e assignment:
This formatting ensures that ‘description’ is always a max of 23 characters long, and in a row that is always 23 characters long:

print(f"{description[:23]:23} {amount:7.2f}")

It works, but seems to me to be a clumsy looking way of achieving the goal.
Is there a better way to specify that the string will always be exactly 23 characters long?

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Why clumsy? It looks like an excellent and concise way of achieving this.

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Thanks, glad you like it! I was looking for a single expression that would force a string to be a specified length, rather than having to use 2 expressions to do that. It just seemed like a thing that should exist! I guess if it doesn’t, I’m not missing anything.