featurebyte.Target.str.pad

pad(

width: int,

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

fillchar: str=" "

) -> Target

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

• Target
  A new Target object.
  
  

Examples

Pad the ProductGroupLookup target to 10 characters:

>>> target = catalog.get_target("ProductGroupLookup")
>>> target["ProductGroupLookupPadded"] = target.str.pad(10, fillchar="0")