[melbourne-pug] string formatting / Format SPecific Mini Language

[Josh Bode]

This is much more obvious and clear than my solution (which looks like an emoticon gone wrong), and from a quick test, at least twice as fast on small strings ~ 80 characters - and gets even better on long strings (not that speed’s probably a huge factor here)

In IPython:

In [1]: something = 'A' * 40

In [2]: %timeit something.ljust(80)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 439 ns per loop

In [3]: %timeit "{0:<{1}}".format(something, 80)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 876 ns per loop

In [4]: %timeit something.ljust(10000)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 867 ns per loop

In [5]: %timeit "{0:<{1}}".format(something, 10000)
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.4 µs per loop


On 2014-05-13, at 5:17 pm, Tom Dunham <tom at tomdunham.org> wrote:

> String has an 'ljust' method that left-justifies the string in a column of a given length, so you could do:
> 
> some_string = something.ljust(len(some_other_string))
> 
> (I'm on the train so I can't run this to check, but I'm pretty sure that's correct).
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
> On 13 May 2014 07:27, "David Crisp" <dcrisp at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> I need to create a string that has a variable length of padding and im not sure how to do it.
> 
> For instance
> 
> some_string = ("{something:<40}".format(something = somethingelse))
> 
> will give me a 40 space padded display of something
> 
> 
> What if, after a little bit of string concatination (for want of a abetter word)  I want to do the following:
> 
> string_length = len(some_other_string)
> 
> some_string = ("{something:<string_length}".format(something = somethingelse))
> 
> When I do this I get a ValueError: Invalid format specifier.
> 
> IS there a clean and neat way of doing the above?
> 
> Regards,
> David Crisp
> 
> 
> 
> 
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