[Tutor] help: space formatting for multiplication table

[Lee Harr]

>The idea is to print out a multiplication table on the command line
>with numbers lining up in the ones column. I want to eventually
>emulate programs like top with their spacing. But this code is mostly
>for my amusement. How would you make this work?
>


Try print string formatting using %

>>>print '%5d' % 12
   12
>>>print '--%5d--' % 12
--   12--
>>>print '--%5d--' % 112
--  112--
>>>print '--%5d--' % 1123
-- 1123--
>>>print '--%5d--' % 11235
--11235--
>>>print '--%5d--' % 112356
--112356--
>>>print '--%05d--' % 112
--00112--


http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

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