How could I align the text so that it cuts the first 140 characters of a string, and fills the rest with whitespace?
e.g. "%140s"%some_text but the space on the other side.
Thoughts?
Add a comment
|
2 Answers
Simple: "%-140.140s" % some_text
6 Comments
tekknolagi
Python is so brilliantly simple...!
Constantinius
>>> x = "abcd" -- >>> "%-2s"%x -- 'abcd'
tekknolagi
@Constantinius i believe the value needs to be greater than the length of the string
tekknolagi
@Constantinius see the new answer
sleeplessnerd
Note how this took an iteration to get right, the stringformat syntax is a little too cryptic for my taste in complex cases.
|
You can also use rjust and ljust for strings. In combination with slicing you get this:
>>> "blabla"[:10].ljust(10)
'blabla '
>>> "blabla12345678901234567890"[:10].ljust(10)
'blabla1234'
>>>
>>> "blabla"[:10].rjust(10)
' blabla'
>>> "blabla12345678901234567890"[:10].rjust(10)
'blabla1234'
>>>
This is quickly understood by someone reading the code, but the string formatting variant is much more concise.
