Text side by side in form of columns. Column width is given as the widest one.

text_side_by_side

from itertools import zip_longest

def text_side_by_side(*texts, separator="\t"):
    max_length = 0
    texts_lines = []
    for text in texts:
        # finds the widest one
        text_lines = text.splitlines()
        texts_lines.append(text_lines)
        for line in text_lines:
            max_length = max(len(line), max_length)
    result_text = ""
    for lines in zip_longest(*texts_lines, fillvalue=''):
        for line in lines:
            result_text += f"{line.strip().ljust(max_length)}{separator}"
        result_text = f"{result_text[:-len(separator)]}\n"
    return result_text