Working with decimals

[Seymore4Head]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:24:19 -0700, Larry Hudson <orgnut at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On 08/24/2014 08:12 AM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>[snip]
>> I almost moved, but I was looking at the print out again for this one:
>> print('%3d $%-13.2f $%-14.2f' % (count, payment, balance))
>>
>> I can't understand why the $%-13.2f is pushed against the first
>> column, but the $%-14.2f is not.  It seems like the first case ignores
>> the leading 0s and the second case doesn't not.
>>
>
>Let's break down the %-13.2f format code for example...
>
>-   Left justify (which was my original oversight)
>13  Total field width, ie. 13 characters wide (default filler is space)
>.2  Round to two decimal places -- that's 3 characters of the 13
>         (the decimal point plus the 2-digit fraction)
>f   The input is a floating point number
>
>So the last column follows the 13-character wide second column...
>(For illustration, I'm using '-' instead of the default space filler)
>
>[-]  [-----------]  [------------]       <-- showing field widths
>-12 $123.45------- $15.00---------
>
>Notice, the first field is right-justified by default.
>(And that is not negative 12, the '-' is my pretend filler)
>
>Helpful?
>
>      -=- Larry -=-

Yes it is.
Thanks