Re: [Tutor] variable length precision

2009-06-22 Thread Kent Johnson
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Wayne wrote: > With string formatting I know you can easily specify precision a la > 'file%.2d.jpg' % 1 which would give me 'file01.jpg' but then I discovered > you can indeed chain together formatting (or use variables in place of > string constants... of course s

[Tutor] variable length precision

2009-06-22 Thread Wayne
Well, I was going to ask the question, but some experimentation has led me to the answer which I will share. Mainly because I'm sure someone out there may come across the need. I'm writing a function that will generate me a filename such as "file0001.jpg" but I want to be able to specify the min