In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Why Tea wrote: > print format % values > An optional minimum width of the conversion, specified using one or > more digits or an asterisk (*), which means that the width is taken > from the next item in values > > That's from one of O'reilly's books. But there is no example and I > couldn't get it to work by trials and errors. Does anyone have a > working example?
In [50]: '%*s' % (5, 'spam') Out[50]: ' spam' In [51]: '%*s' % (10, 'spam') Out[51]: ' spam' In [52]: '%*s' % (15, 'spam') Out[52]: ' spam' Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list