Disclaimer
I have introducd another variable data to store your tuple, this is not necessary, but I hope it gives the examples a better readability.
There are three ways of the new-style format strings that you can use. Which one is the best depends on the situation you are using it.
And there is also a lot of discusion which one is "the best" in my opinion the best is the one that fits your custom needs, which also includes readability in your coding team, if you have one.
Here are the alternatives:
F-String
Downside: You can not split into formatting and data, like your example does.
Normal use case is not yours, the normal use case is, if you have a bunch of local / nonlocal variables and want to join them in a cool logging message or a custom __str__ or __repr__
data = ('ID','SerialNumber','Cabinet','Type','Last Update','Status','Result','Fail','Pass','Instructions','Resolution')
header = f'{data[0]:-5s} {data[1]:-12s}{data[2]:3s} {data[3]:-10s} {data[4]:-20s} {data[5]:-8s}{data[6]:-18s}{data[7]:-4s} {data[8]:-4s} {data[9]:-46s} {data[10]:-16s}\n'
.format with postional arguments
This is probaly what you want.
Downside: you have to comment / document which data has to come in which order.
This one I have never used, because I prefer boilerplate over implicity, but that is just my opinion, I am sure there are use cases where this makes sense to use.
data = ('ID','SerialNumber','Cabinet','Type','Last Update','Status','Result','Fail','Pass','Instructions','Resolution')
temp1 = "{:-5s} {:-12s}{:3s} {:-10s} {:-20s} {:-8s}{:-18s}{:-4s} {:-4s} {:-46s} {:-16s}\n"
header = temp1.format(*data)
.format with keyword arguments
This is the same as above, just with another downside: You have to type much more code.
And with the upside that your documentation is in the string. Also you do not need change your calls to .format, if you change the structure of your template string. Of course you have to change headerX in the string and in the kwargs of .format into something that makes sense. But I can't figure out what you are trying to do, so I kept it generic.
I like this one for serializing dataclasses. For example: "...".format(**vars(datacls_instance))
data = ('ID','SerialNumber','Cabinet','Type','Last Update','Status','Result','Fail','Pass','Instructions','Resolution')
temp1 = "{header1:-5s} {header2:-12s}{header3:3s} {header4:-10s} {header5:-20s} {header6:-8s}{header7:-18s}{header8:-4s} {header9:-4s} {header10:-46s} {header11:-16s}\n"
header = temp1.format(header1=data[0], header2=data[1], header3=data[2], header4=data[3], header5=data[4], header6=data[5], header7=data[6], header8=data[7], header9=data[8],header10=data[9], header11=data[10])
