[Tutor] Field Width

[Jenny Allar]

Thanks, Dave.

Your statement "it does nothing to guess what else you put on the line" was
like a light bulb that went off in my head. I think I was relating the
field width to a left, center, or right justification, and that's not the
case at all.



Well now I feel silly!


Thanks,

Jenny





On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:

> On 18/9/2013 12:50, Jenny Allar wrote:
>
> > I'm only a few days in to learning Python, so please bear with me.
> >
> > I need to line up the decimals on the printed information but I cannot
> get
> > the text to look uniform at all.
> >
> >
> > Here is my code:
> >
>
>    <snip>
>
> >
> >     # Print infomation
> >     print("The cost of the carpet is $", format(subtotal,'9,.2f'))
> >     print("The flat fee is $", format(fee,'9,.2f'))
> >     print("The tax is $", format(tax_rate,'9,.2f'))
> >     print("The total due is $", format(total_due,'9,.2f'))
> >
>
> Have you tried lining it up in the source?
>
>     # Print infomation
>     print("The cost of the carpet is $", format(subtotal,'9,.2f'))
>     print("The flat fee is           $", format(fee,'9,.2f'))
>     print("The tax is                $", format(tax_rate,'9,.2f'))
>     print("The total due is          $", format(total_due,'9,.2f'))
>
> The format() method can handle variability in the floating point number,
> but it does nothing to guess what else you put on the line.
>
> Does that help?
>
>
> --
> DaveA
>
>
>
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