That seems a bit harsh. Place, in general, isn't as useful as pack and grid. Yelling at him for suggesting you use them is unnecessary. When I looked at when your script generates, I don't see why you couldn't just use grid. I can fairly easily see a grid layout. But, I guess it's supposed to be a place test anyway.
Anyway, how are you expecting it to be aligned? How is it aligned on your computer? When I ran the script, it lined up with the first and second number entries, as I would expect.
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