On Tue, Jul 12, 2016, at 02:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If not, then what are the alternatives? Using str.format, how would > you get the same output as this? > > > py> "%8.4d" % 25 > ' 0025'
" %04d" % 25
"%8s" % ("%04d" % 25)
The latter (well, generally, "format it how you want and then use %*s to
put it in fixed columns") is something that I've actually *done*,
because it's easier to reason about.
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