How to check if all values in the list are the same length? And if not how to add extra digits to equalise those values?

Question

I'm doing a little coding in Python, and I came up to the issue that some of my values and not the same length.

Desired length is 15 characters

for example:

string = ['110000111100111', '100100110011011', '001101100110', '01011010001110', '111100111001', '1101100111011']

Some of these values are different, and I want to add zeros to equalise them to the same length. Specifically by adding some zeros to those values that are shorter.

Can someone give me a hand on this?

Many thanks!

I tried comparing them and finding shorter values in the list. I'm new to this.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '23 at 22:39

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Try this:

s = ['110000111100111', '100100110011011', '001101100110', '01011010001110', '1100111001', '1101100111011']

s = [x.zfill(15) for x in s]

zfill() will pad a string with zeros on the left, up to the desired string length.

answered Feb 17 '23 at 22:39

Tom Kaufman

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Thank you! I tried before with zFill but did the for loop and if statement. Thank you – Justinas Stankunavicius Feb 17 '23 at 22:41
No problem! You can click the green checkmark next to my answer to accept it, if it gave you what you needed. – Tom Kaufman Feb 17 '23 at 23:01

How to check if all values in the list are the same length? And if not how to add extra digits to equalise those values?

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