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Formatting

In formatting patterns below, L is an int variable representing length

Strings

Right-Padded: %-Ls where L is length

>>> '%-10s' % 'hello'
'hello     '

Left-Padded Truncated: %-Ls % string[:L]

>>> '%-4s' % 'hello'
'hello'
>>> '%-4s' % 'hello'[:4]
'hell'

Left-Padded: % Ls (note space)

>>> '% 10s' % 'hello'
'     hello'

Numbers

Simple Integer: %d or %i

>>> 'int: %d' % 200
'int: 200'
>>> 'int: %i' % 200
'int: 200'

Zero-Padding Integer: %0Ld or %0Li

>>> '%010d' % 200
'0000000200'
>>> '%010i' % 200
'0000000200'

Simple Float: %.Df

>>> 'float: %.2f' % 200.055
'float: 200.06'

Float-Rounding: %L.Df (L is total string length, D decimal length)

>>> '%10.2f' % 200
'    200.00'
>>> '%10.2f' % 200.055
'    200.06'
>>> '%10.2f' % 200.054
'    200.05'

Zero-Padded Float-Rounding: %0L.Df

>>> '%010.2f' % 200
'0000200.00'

Complex

>>> label = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR20'
>>> val1 = 123456789
>>> val2 = 123456789.12345
>>> '%-15s % 6d % 9.2f' % (label, val1, val2)
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR20  123456789  123456789.12'
>>> '%-15s % 6d % 9.2f' % (label[:15], val1, val2)
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO  123456789  123456789.12'

Dictionary

>>> f = '%(label)s %(val1)6d %(val2)9.2f'
>>> label = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR20'
>>> val1 = 123456789
>>> val2 = 123456789.12345
>>> f % {'label':label[:15], 'val1':val1, 'val2':val2}
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO 123456789 123456789.12'

String Diffs

from difflib import Differ

d = Differ()

print '\n'.join(list(d.compare(app_output, expect)))

References

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations

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