zero padded string

[gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk]

In article <mailman.998578654.6960.python-list at python.org>, hnowak at cuci.nl 
(Hans Nowak) wrote:

> Do you mean something like this?
> 
> >>> '%09d' % 42
> '000000042'

There's also string.zfill(42,9) or string.zfill("42",9)


                  Graham