In summary, when I start a triple quote formatted string ''' and include a variable '''Hello {name}''' and try to new line after the closing brace } I get put all the way back to the starting column ...

If your are using Python 3.6+, string f-strings are the recommended way to format strings. Python 3 introduced a new way to do string formatting that was later back-ported to Python 2.7. This makes ...