> > > zfill > > > > no. > > Why not ? Zfill is (or ought to be) deprecated. It stems from times before we had things like "%08d" % x and no longer serves a useful purpose. I doubt anyone would miss it. (Of course, now /F will claim that PIL will break in 27 places because of this. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)