Pad outgoing messages

Question

I can't quite figure out how to pad a message that I send. Basically.. I want to pad the message to the max 512 chars as defined in the RFC.

I understand that a message being sent by the user will contain user!user@hostname privmsg #chan (or other_user): text text text \r\n.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To pad a string you can use the functions ljust, center or rjust, respectively:

print "Hello, " + "world".ljust(10) + "!"
print "Hello, " + "world".center(10) + "!"
print "Hello, " + "world".rjust(10) + "!"

Output (Try it):

Hello, world     !
Hello,   world   !
Hello,      world!

All three functions have an optional second argument fillchar which lets you specify the character that is used to fill up the additional space.