On Sep 5, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Walt Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Python has Unicode functions that let you examine the characteristics of the
> characters within a string so you can figure out the proper length when
> printed, but I'm not aware of anything built-in like a print function that
> does that automatically. It would be handy.
In Python 3, at least, the built-in substitution facility can handle it as-is:
Python 3.5.4 (default, Aug 12 2017, 14:31:52)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def fmtprt(hw):
... print("%-22s+++\n" % hw)
...
>>> fmtprt("Hello, world!")
Hello, world! +++
>>> fmtprt("Привет мир.")
Привет мир. +++
>>> fmtprt("Bonjour le monde.")
Bonjour le monde. +++
>>>
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