On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:43:43 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>aurora wrote: >> I am think more in the line of string.ljust(). So if we have a >> list.ljust(length, filler), we can do something like >> >> name, value = s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'') > >Eh? > >Py> s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'') >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? >AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'ljust' > Python 2.4b1 (#56, Nov 3 2004, 01:47:27) [GCC 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help(''.ljust) Help on built-in function ljust: ljust(...) S.ljust(width[, fillchar]) -> string Return S left justified in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fill character (default is a space). I should upgrade too ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list