How to Print decimal 0 as 000 in python

Question

i am converting hex data to decimal and the range is from 00 to FF

 hex_data = "FF"
int("0x" + hex_data , 16) 

returns 255 but when i give 0 as hexdata it gives 0 wheras i need it as 000

how to do it

Answer 1

You need to format it:

hex_data = "FF"
number = int("0x" + hex_data, 16) 
print '%03d' % number # either this
print '{:03d}'.format(number) # or this (Python >= 2.6)