[Tutor] formatting sql output

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:

> > def fieldformat15(field):
> >         return '%-15s' % field
> 
> The format specification is incorrect.  You should use "%15.15s" or
> "%-15.15s" to force left justification, in addition to padding/clipping.

Is there a reason not to use return string.ljust(field, 15) ?

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