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Subject: Re: Formatting a str as a number
Date: 25 Aug 2024 15:42:24 GMT
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Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.serda@nothing.here.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>Subject explains it, or ask.

  Or, you could have asked this way:

|Please fill in the implementation (replacing "pass" below) for
|the following function definition!
|
|def format_number(number_str: str) -> str:
|    """
|    Format a string of digits as a right-aligned, comma-separated number.
|
|    This function takes a string of digits and returns a formatted string where:
|    - The number is right-aligned in a field width of 20 characters
|    - Commas are inserted as thousand separators
|    - Leading spaces are added for alignment
|
|    Args:
|        number_str (str): A string containing only digits (0-9)
|
|    Returns:
|        str: A formatted string with the number right-aligned and comma-separated
|
|    Examples:
|    >>> format_number("123456789")
|    '         123,456,789'
|    >>> format_number("1000000")
|    '           1,000,000'
|    >>> format_number("42")
|    '                  42'
|    >>> format_number("1234567890123456789")
|    '1,234,567,890,123,456,789'
|    """
|    pass