def table(lines, delim='\t'):
    lens = [len(max(col, key=len)) for col in zip(*lines)]
    fmt = delim.join('{:' + str(x) + '}' for x in lens)
    return [fmt.format(*line) for line in lines]

text = """
start() "hello"
appended() "fly"
instantiated() "destination"
do() "increment"
logging_sampler() "dummy string"
"""

import re
lines = [re.split(r' ', s.strip(), maxsplit=1) for s in text.strip().splitlines()]
print '\n'.join(table(lines))