How to pad with n characters in Python

Question

I should define a function pad_with_n_chars(s, n, c) that takes a string \'s\', an integer \'n\', and a character \'c\' and returns a string consisting of \'s\'

Answer 1

With Python2.6 or better, there's no need to define your own function; the string format method can do all this for you:

In [18]: '{s:{c}^{n}}'.format(s='dog',n=5,c='x')
Out[18]: 'xdogx'