Re: Dynamic Zero Padding.

Date	2011-06-07 18:46 -0700
From	Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: Dynamic Zero Padding.
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On 06/07/2011 03:01 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>> --> print("Testing %0*i" % (width, 1))
>
>> The '*' acts as a place holder for the width argument.
>
> very nice...
>

It works for precision as well as width.

wid = 10
prec = 3
num = 123.456789
print "%0*.*f" % (wid, prec, num)

gives you ->  000123.457

(It's the same as the printf() function in C.)

      -=- Larry -=-

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Re: Dynamic Zero Padding. Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-07 15:04 -0700
  Re: Dynamic Zero Padding. harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-06-07 17:01 -0500
    Re: Dynamic Zero Padding. Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-07 18:46 -0700

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