Steve Holden wrote: > 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 > >>> > ... but (unfortunately?):
>>> f(-9999.99) ' 0.010' >>> You don't say what you want to do about negative numbers, so this may or may not be significant. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Blog of Note: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com See you at PyCon? http://us.pycon.org/TX2007 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
