string.zfill() - string

             
The method zfill() pads string on the left with zeros to fill width.


width -- This is final width of the string. This is the width which we would get after filling zeros.

Syntax

str.zfill(width)

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "this is string example....wow!!!";

print str.zfill(40)
print str.zfill(50)

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


00000000this is string example....wow!!!
000000000000000000this is string example....wow!!!

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