hex(dummy)[2:] - issue...

[Florian Wollenschein]

Tim Chase wrote:
>> I need some advice :-)
>> I'm using hex(dummy)[2:] to represent a color in hexadecimal format 
>> for the bgcolor in an html file. dummy is the color value in RGB of 
>> course...
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>> Now, if there's an R, G or B value of zero, this command only prints 
>> one single 0 instead of two. What's wrong with the code?
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> You can try
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>  PLACES = 2 # 6?
>  hex(dummy)[2:].zfill(PLACES)
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> Alternatively, you can output decimal numbers in HTML/CSS with
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>   rgb(r, g, b)
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> such as
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>   style="rgb(255,0,0)"
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> However, I recommend doing this via CSS unless you have a strong reason 
> to sully your HTML with style information.
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> -tkc
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hey tkc,

I used your first alternative. This did it! Thanks a lot.
I think I will write the style stuff into a .css file in the next few 
days but until then I'm just working on get my program to work...

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