I just want to change a list (that I make using range(r)) to a list of strings, but if the length of the string is 1, tack a 0 on the front. I know how to turn the list into strings using
ranger= map(str,range(r))
but I want to be able to also change the length of those strings.
Input:
r = 12 ranger = range(r) ranger = magic_function(ranger)
Output:
print ranger >>> ['00','01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09','10','11']
And if possible, my final goal is this: I have a matrix of the form
numpy.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])
and I want to make a set of strings such that the first 2 characters are the row, the second two are the column and the third two are ’01’, and have matrix[row,col] of each one of these. so the above values would look like such:
000001 since matrix[0,0] = 1 000101 since matrix[0,1] = 2 000101 since matrix[0,1] = 2 000201 000201 000201 etc
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Answer
Use string formatting
and list comprehension:
>>> lst = range(11) >>> ["{:02d}".format(x) for x in lst] ['00', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10']
or format
:
>>> [format(x, '02d') for x in lst] ['00', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10']