Using ljust to pad out strings

[RDS]

I have been using the ljust command to pad out a string but I actually need to pad the string out with commas (,).
So far I have only been able to do it by assigning the comma to another string and then using that other string in the ljust command like this:

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d =','
ljust( myvariable, d)

This is because the format of the ljust command needs a comma to separate the 2 essential variables

Could someone please advise me if there is a better way.

[ghp]

Hello, some options I use are

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# right adjust
s = "{data:,>10s}".format(data="abc")
print("<" + s + ">")
# left adjust
s = "{data:,<10s}".format(data="abc")
print("<" + s + ">")
# join
s = "{data_0:s},{data_1:s}".format(data_0="abc", data_1="xyz")
print("<" + s + ">")
# ljust, rjust
print ( "<" + "abc".ljust(10, ",") + ">")
print ( "<" + "abc".rjust(10, ",") + ">")

Hope this helps, Gerhard

[RDS]

@Gerhard
I had tried a single inverted comma (') but not the double one.
That is just what I needed. Thank you very much.

[paddyg]

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'abc'.ljust(10, ',') #should work just as well (as " version), but I like format()