On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:19 AM likage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did not know that I can write it as {0:0>3}! Works like a charm!
>
For completeness, the equivalent in using the older string formatting
approach would be:
"abc_%03d" % number
But using the format() method is the newer preferred approach.
>
> On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 12:24:56 PM UTC-7, Justin Israel wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, 6:54 AM likage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to tweak the code a bit so that it will register version padding
>>> - eg. abc_001, abc_002 where in my code I am using something like
>>> uniqueNamePattern("abc_{0}{0}{0}")
>>>
>>> While it seems to work in a sense, I got abc_111, abc_222 instead...
>>> Also I tried something like uniqueNamePattern("abc_00{0}")
>>> However, say if I have 12 of the same items and as I execute the code,
>>> instead of getting abc_010 or abc_011, I got abc_0010, abc_0011
>>>
>>> Can someone shed some light to me?
>>>
>>
>> Your approaches have tried to format either 3 independent counter numbers
>> into the string (the same number 3 times) or uses 2 fixed 0 characters that
>> never change
>>
>> If you are using my custom counter suggestion, try updating the format
>> string like this
>>
>> uniqueNamePattern("abc_{0:0>3}")
>>
>> That says to pad the number with 0, right aligned, with a width of 3
>>
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