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

In Python >= 3.6, you can do this succinctly with the new f-strings that were introduced by using:

f'{val:02}'

which prints the variable with name val with a fill value of 0 and a width of 2.

For your specific example you can do this nicely in a loop:

a, b, c = 1, 10, 100
for val in [a, b, c]:
    print(f'{val:02}')

which prints:

01 
10
100

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For more information on f-strings, take a look at PEP 498 where they were introduced.