From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:15:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix PR#31 -- zfill() mishandles empty string.
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~827
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b7aec35c43360ed1ec699458cc103e3223aac14;p=python

Fix PR#31 -- zfill() mishandles empty string.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 92158ee9d3..e449c20765 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ def zfill(x, width):
 	n = len(s)
 	if n >= width: return s
 	sign = ''
-	if s[0] in ('-', '+'):
+	if s[:1] in ('-', '+'):
 		sign, s = s[0], s[1:]
 	return sign + '0'*(width-n) + s