Elementary string-formatting

[Odysseus]

In article <mailman.561.1200198783.896.python-list at python.org>,
 Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com> wrote:

> Odysseus wrote:

<snip>
> >
> > print '%2u %6u %4.2f' % \
> > (i, wordcounts[i], 100.0 * wordcounts[i] / wordcounts[0])
> >   
> Using 4.2 is the problem.  The first digit (your 4) give the total
> number of characters to use for the number.

Thanks; I was thinking the numbers referred to digits before and after 
the decimal. The largest figures have five characters in all, so they 
were 'overflowing'.

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Odysseus