Dynamic Zero Padding.

[Larry Hudson]

On 06/07/2011 03:01 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>> --> print("Testing %0*i" % (width, 1))
>
>> The '*' acts as a place holder for the width argument.
>
> very nice...
>

It works for precision as well as width.

wid = 10
prec = 3
num = 123.456789
print "%0*.*f" % (wid, prec, num)

gives you ->  000123.457

(It's the same as the printf() function in C.)

      -=- Larry -=-