Newbie, homework help, please.

[Tim Chase]

On 04/21/12 14:44, Roy Smith wrote:
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> You can take advantage of python's string formatting capabilities (which
> are pretty much the same as C's printf() formatting), and do something
> like:
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> print  "* %-*s *" % (max_length, data)

Sounds like a lot more work and less flexible than using the 
(underemployed) .ljust() or .center() methods of a string. :-)

   print "* %s *" % data.ljust(42)

-tkc