Thanks for your fast reply. I'm fine with your "%7.03f" solution. (negatives are not significant)
Alexander Eisenhuth schrieb: > 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) > > Thanks, > Alexander -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list