However, I’m not sure exactly what that emoticon is, though… er, man with halo and beard, perhaps?
On 2014-05-13, at 4:50 pm, Josh Bode <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> melbourne-pug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
