Re: [Fab-user] String formatting with color functions

[Jeff Forcier]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Ahsan Rabbani <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've noticed that when printing strings that are wrapped in color functions
> it screws up the string formatting.

My guess would be that it has something to do with the non-printing
ANSI color escape codes that the color functions add. They're likely
"counting" as individual characters from the perspective of Python's
string formatter when it does the left-justify.

Offhand workarounds (caveat: I don't do a ton of string manip these
days...): manually calculating how the justification should occur
(based on the string before it is colorized) and adding the extra
spaces yourself; or doing a substitution (i.e. justify, then take the
result and substitute the original string for the colorized string.)

Hope that helps,
Jeff

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