Alexander Eisenhuth wrote: > Hello alltogether, > > is it possible to format stings with fixed width of let's say 7 character. T > need a floating point with 3 chars before dot, padded with ' ' and 3 chars > after > dot, padded with '0'. > > Followingh is my approach > >>> f = 21.1 > >>> s = "%.03f" % f > >>> s > '21.100' > > But there are missing ' '. How can I get that? (For bigger numbers than 999 > they > might be cut: 1021 -> 021) > >>> def f(x): ... return "%7.3f" % (x % 1000.0) ... >>> for x in (9.9, 99.9, 999.9, 9999.9): ... print f(x) ... 9.900 99.900 999.900 999.900 >>>
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