zero padded string

[Max Møller Rasmussen]

What is the simplest way to make a zero padded string usable for
alphabetically sorting?

This does it.

number="42"
print (8*'0')[:-len(number)] + number
>> 00000042

But my guess is that there is a builtin c-formatting that does it shorter.
I'll be damned if I know what it is!

There will allways be the same number of zeroes.

regards Max 

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