Per Jr. Greisen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am replacing 4 characters with a number and I would like to make the
> whitespace dynamic so
> for fx. 1 it uses 3 whitespace and for 10 two and for 100 one etc. I am
> using the replace() method.
I'm not too sure what you want to do but probably str.rjust() or a
format string with a width parameter will do what you want:
In [16]: nums = [1, 10, 100, 1000]
In [17]: for num in nums:
....: print str(num).rjust(4)
....:
....:
1
10
100
1000
In [18]: for num in nums:
....: print '%4d' % num
....:
....:
1
10
100
1000
Details here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
Kent
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