How about "{0:<{1}}".format(something, 10)
Cheers,
Josh
On 2014-05-13, at 4:23 pm, David Crisp <[email protected]> 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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