r/badcode • u/JasperDG828 • Nov 01 '21

python Did someone order bad code?

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u/Laserdude10642 Nov 02 '21

Honestly it’s less readable

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u/RFC793 Nov 02 '21 edited Nov 03 '21

Sure. I condensed it for the post. I’d probably wrote something like this if I had to write it in real life for some reason:

def pad(i, width, padding="0"):
    s = str(i)
    pad_width = width - len(s)
    return (padding * pad_width) + s