Entry

Outlining numbers with zeroes

Mar 10th, 2005 00:23
Martin Miller, Nathan Wallace, Hans Nowak, Snippet 291, Jeff Bauer

"""
Packages: text.formatting
"""
"""
[...]
Here is a slightly different version which should
accomplish the same goals:
"""
def zfill(x, width):
    return "%0*d" % (width, int(x))
# optional test routine ...
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for x, width in [(12, 3), (-3, 3), (1, 6), ('17', 4)]:
        print "zfill(%s, %d) = %s" % \
              (x, width, zfill(x, width))