code: def fmt_content(text, width = 0, align = '<', padding = None, padding_left = None, padding_right = None, padding_char = ' '):
          
          if padding_left is None:
              padding_left = padding
          if padding_right is None:
              padding_right = padding
          if padding_left is not None:
              text = '{}{}'.format(str(padding_char)[0] * int(padding_left), text)
          if padding_right is not None:
              text = '{}{}'.format(text, str(padding_char)[0] * int(padding_right))
          if width:
              strptrn = '{:' + ('{}{}{}'.format(str(padding_char)[0], str(TEXT_ALIGNMENT[align]), str(width))) + 's}'
              text = strptrn.format(text)
          return text
docs: Pad given text with given padding characters, inflate it to given width
          and perform horizontal aligning.