On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Matty Sarro <msa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently trying to convert a digit from decimal to hex, however I need > the full 4 digit hex form. Python appears to be shortening the form. > Example: > > num = 10 > num = "%x"%(num) > print(num) > >>a > > num = 10 > num = "%#x"%(num) > print(num) > >>0xa > > I need it to output as 0x0a, and the exercise is requiring me to use %x to > format the string. Any help would be appreciated.
Use str.zfill() and add the 0x manually: num = 10 hexdig = "%x" % num padded = hexdig.zfill(2) # pad with 0 if necessary oxd = "0x" + padded print(oxd) Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
