On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:58, ALAN GAULD <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Heres what I did: > Search Google for "Python format strings" and from the first link click > on String Formatting operations in the contents pane: > > http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations > > Read item number 4.
"4. Minimum field width (optional). If specified as an '*' (asterisk), the actual width is read from the next element of the tuple in values, and the object to convert comes after the minimum field width and optional precision." Now that just screams for about a dozen well-designed illustrative examples, don't you think? Thanks, Alan. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
