I have the follow python code but i dont know what it is doing, can someone help me understand what it is doing please? I've googled but i dont know what im searching for..
single_line = "1562661"
single_line = '{:<07}'.format(single_line)
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So this particular code of your is used to add extra spaces if your string size exceeds 7.
Example 1
single_line = "1562661"
single_line = '{:<07}'.format(single_line)
for ex: This code above will give us
'1562661'
Example 2
single_line = "1562661"
single_line = '{:<10}'.format(single_line)
'1562661 '(This will be genererated by the code above with 3 trailing spaces)
Example 3:
single_line = "1562661"
single_line = '{:>10}'.format(single_line)
' 1562661'(This will be genererated by the code above with 3 leading spaces)
Hope this helps
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Straight from the docs:
Padding and aligning strings
By default values are formatted to take up only as many characters as needed to represent the content. It is however also possible to define that a value should be padded to a specific length.
Unfortunately the default alignment differs between old and new style formatting. The old style defaults to right aligned while for new style it's left.
Example:
single_line = "123"
single_line = '{:<07}'.format(single_line)
Results in :
'1230000'
