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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def fmt_content(text, width = 0, align = '<', padding = None, padding_left = None, padding_right = None, padding_char = ' '):
 """ Pad given text with given padding characters, inflate it to given width and perform horizontal aligning. """

        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