featurebyte.Feature.str.pad

pad(

width: int,

side: Literal["left", "right", "both"]="left",

fillchar: str=" "

) -> Feature

Description

Pads each string element up to the specified width.

Parameters

• width: int
  Minimum width of resulting string. Additional characters will be filled with fillchar.
  
  
• side: Literal["left", "right", "both"]
  default: "left"
  Padding direction.
  
  
• fillchar: str
  default: " "
  Character used to pad.
  
  

Returns

• Feature
  A new Feature object.
  
  

Examples

Pad the Title column to 10 characters:

>>> feature = catalog.get_feature("ProductGroupLookup")
>>> feature_group = fb.FeatureGroup([feature])
>>> feature_group["ProductGroupLookupPadded"] = feature.str.pad(10, fillchar="0")