I want to fill out a string with spaces. I know that the following works for zero's:
>>> print "'%06d'"%4
'000004'
But what should I do when I want this?:
'hi '
of course I can measure string length and do str+" "*leftover
, but I'd like the shortest way.
You can do this with str.ljust(width[, fillchar])
:
Return the string left justified in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillchar (default is a space). The original string is returned if width is less than
len(s)
.
>>> 'hi'.ljust(10)
'hi '