mattia wrote:
> Hi all, I wanto to print just the first 5 characters of a string, why
> this doesn't work (py3.1)?
>>>> print("{0:5}".format("123456789"))
> 123456789
> I know I could use print("123456789"[:5]), yeah it's a stupid example,
> but isn't format for string formatting?
>
That's because it's the _minimum_ width.