[Tutor] string formatting and right justifying text

[dman]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:30:14PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote:
| Hi everyone,
| 
| I'm working on the next project for my students and I'd like to have them
| print a table of stock prices, number of shares, etc. I can't figure out the
| string formatting codes to right-justify integers or floating point numbers
| so I can make the table look right. Any pointers?

All the format string codes are documented in 'man printf'.  It is
identical to C/C++ string formatting.  To right justify text in a
fixed-width field :

>>> print "%20s" % "yo"
                  yo
>>> print "%-20s" % "yo"
yo                  
>>> print "%20d" % 5
                  5
>>> print "%-20d" % 5
5      
>>>

HTH,
-D

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