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[Jeff Shannon]

In article <3CF4AD87.9050206 at mxm.dk>, Max M says...
> Eric Texier wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to do replace '#' with a number in string with some control
> > over the padding:
> > 
> > a = 'echo file#.sgi file#~3.sgi file#~5*2.sgi'
> 
> If possible you are better of using Pythons string formatting notation 
> for this:
> 
> val = 3
> a = 'echo file%s.sgi file%.3i.sgi file%.5i.sgi' % (val, val, val*2)
> print a

If you're expecting the inserted text to always be decimal 
numbers, then you're better off using the %d formatting code 
instead of %s or %I --

a = 'echo file%d.sgi file%03d.sgi file%05d.sgi' % (val,val,val*2)

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International