Can string format operator help me?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Srihari> Please consider the following example:
    Srihari> l = 0
    Srihari> while l < 1000000:
    Srihari>     print "%s" % l
    Srihari>     l = l + 10000

    Srihari> What I want to achieve is something like this:
    Srihari>      0
    Srihari>  10000
    Srihari> ..
    Srihari> 100000
    Srihari> ..

How about:

>>> i = 1
>>> while i <= 1000000:
...   print "%7d" % i
...   i *= 10
... 
      1
     10
    100
   1000
  10000
 100000
1000000

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