Display number with leading zeros

Question

Given:

a = 1
b = 10
c = 100

How do I display a leading zero for all numbers with less than two digits?

This is the output I\'m expe

Answer 1

width = 5
num = 3
formatted = (width - len(str(num))) * "0" + str(num)
print formatted

Answer 2

Use:

'00'[len(str(i)):] + str(i)

Or with the math module:

import math
'00'[math.ceil(math.log(i, 10)):] + str(i)

Answer 3

This is how I do it:

str(1).zfill(len(str(total)))

Basically zfill takes the number of leading zeros you want to add, so it's easy to take the biggest number, turn it into a string and get the length, like this:

Python 3.6.5 (default, May 11 2018, 04:00:52) 
[GCC 8.1.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> total = 100
>>> print(str(1).zfill(len(str(total))))
001
>>> total = 1000
>>> print(str(1).zfill(len(str(total))))
0001
>>> total = 10000
>>> print(str(1).zfill(len(str(total))))
00001
>>> 

Answer 4

You can use str.zfill:

print(str(1).zfill(2))
print(str(10).zfill(2))
print(str(100).zfill(2))

prints:

01
10
100

Answer 5

Or this:

print '{0:02d}'.format(1)

Answer 6

Or another solution.

"{:0>2}".format(number)