En Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:28:11 -0300, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> escribió:
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?
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.
Or use the .precision specifier:
py> "{0:.5}".format("123412341234")
'12341'
{0:5.5} has the same effect. See
http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-string-syntax
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