Apologies for breaking threading, the original post to this thread is not on my newserver.
Cameron Pulsford wrote: > Hello all, I'm trying to pretty print a list, so I am doing something > like > > print '%3d' % integer Instead of re-inventing the wheel, have you looked at the pretty-print module? import pprint may do what you want. If you still need your own custom pretty-print function, then there are a couple of ways to accomplish what you ask: >> only I would like that 3 to be a variable, instead of hardcoded. Is >> this possible, or are there any other ways to accomplish this? As others have said, you can use '*' instead of the width. Another alternative, for even more flexibility, is to construct the format string programmatically: >>> fmt = '%%0%dd' % 7 >>> print fmt % 3 0000003 -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
