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From: Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com>
Subject: Re: True/False formats as 1/0 in a fixed width string
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:14:00 +0200
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On 27/03/2013 10:52, Peter Otten wrote:
> Frank Millman wrote:
>
>>   >>> '{}'.format(True)
>> 'True'
>>   >>> '{:<10}'.format(True)
>> '1'
>>
>> One might want to format True/False in a fixed width string, but it
>> returns 1/0 instead. Is there any way to make this work?
>
>>>> "{!s:<10}".format(True)
> 'True'
>
>

Works perfectly.

Thanks, Peter

Frank