I actually was able to get it working a few minutes after posting the question. My apologies for not posting a followup :)
I ended up using the following format: num = 10 num = "%#0.2x"%(num) print(num) It works, however I'm not sure if it'd be considered very "pythonic" or not. Thanks for your thoughts! On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > 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 >
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