Left pad a string in Python.
Created to try out making a pip package and uploading it to the Python Package Index (PyPI).
Inspired by the left-pad package on npm which broke parts of the internet.
pip install leftpad
from leftpad import left_pad
left_pad("foo", 5)
// => " foo"
left_pad("foobar", 6)
// => "foobar"
left_pad(1, 2, '0')
// => "01"
left_pad(17, 5, 0)
// => "00017"
Run python -m doctest leftpad.py.
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A port of the infamous left-pad npm package
We found that leftpad demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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