[Tutor] float question

[linda.s]

On 12/20/05, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, linda.s wrote:
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> > what does 2 mean in %2.4f ?
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> Hello,
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> It's a "minimal field width" modifier, according to:
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>    http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
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> Let's try experimenting with it.
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> ######
> >>> '%20f' % 3.14
> '            3.140000'
> >>> '%20.2f' % 3.14
> '                3.14'
> ######
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> Does this make sense?  If you have more questions, please feel free to
> ask.

Danny,
Thanks. Still confused. I changed the code a little.
>>> '%3.2f' % 3.14
'3.14'
>>> '%4.2f' % 3.14
'3.14'
there is no difference in the above two codes. so what does 3 and 4 mean?