On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 7:05 PM, John Posner wrote:
>
>> You might want to try "new style" string formatting [1], which I think
>> is better than the "old style" in this particular case:
>>
>> >>> "Testing {0:0{1}d}".format(42, 4)
>> 'Testing 0042'
>
Hello All,
I want to print some integers in a zero padded fashion, eg. :
>>> print("Testing %04i" % 1)
Testing 0001
but the padding needs to be dynamic eg. sometimes %05i, %02i or some
other padding amount. But I can't insert a variable into the format
specification to achieve the desirable padd
