[Tutor] makeing '1' into a '01' neatly ?

[Dave S]

Michael Lange wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:17:20 +0200
>Kalle Svensson <kalle at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
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>>[Dave S]
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>>>I need strings of the form 01, 02, 03 ... ,10,11,12 ... for
>>>archiving files.
>>>
>>>Is there an neat way to format a '1' into a '01' ?
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>for x in '1', '3', '30':
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>...     print '%02d' % int(x)
>>... 
>>01
>>03
>>30
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>>Peace,
>>  Kalle
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>Or just:
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>>>>x = '1'
>>>>x.zfill(2)
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>'01'
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>>>>y = '11'
>>>>y.zfill(2)
>>>>        
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>'11'
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>Regards
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>Michael
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zfill is cool, :-) Its not even in my learning python book !

Dave