"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dick Moores wrote: >> return "%02d:%02d:%5.2f" % (hours, minutes, seconds) > > Try %05.2f > > The leading 0 is a 'conversion flag' that specifies zero-padding.
Sorry I should have included that in my post but I assumed it was "obvious" since thats what you did with the %d fields... Never assume: it makes an ass out of u and me... :-) Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor