mattia wrote:
Hi all, I wanto to print just the first 5 characters of a string, why
this doesn't work (py3.1)?
print("{0:5}".format("123456789"))
123456789
I know I could use print("123456789"[:5]), yeah it's a stupid example,
but isn't format for string formatting?
Thanks, Mattia
I tested following statement in 2.6, not 3.1, but I think it's the same.
The width field of the format is a *minimum* width. So you can use it
to force padding, but not truncation. If you need the string truncated,
just use slicing, as you already showed.
DaveA
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