pandas.Series.str.pad¶

Series.str.pad(width, side='left', fillchar=' ')[source]¶

Pad strings in the Series/Index up to width.

Parameters

widthint: Minimum width of resulting string; additional characters will be filled with character defined in fillchar.
side{‘left’, ‘right’, ‘both’}, default ‘left’: Side from which to fill resulting string.
fillcharstr, default ‘ ‘: Additional character for filling, default is whitespace.

Returns

Series or Index of object: Returns Series or Index with minimum number of char in object.

See also

Series.str.rjust: Fills the left side of strings with an arbitrary character. Equivalent to Series.str.pad(side='left').
Series.str.ljust: Fills the right side of strings with an arbitrary character. Equivalent to Series.str.pad(side='right').
Series.str.center: Fills both sides of strings with an arbitrary character. Equivalent to Series.str.pad(side='both').
Series.str.zfill: Pad strings in the Series/Index by prepending ‘0’ character. Equivalent to Series.str.pad(side='left', fillchar='0').

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series(["caribou", "tiger"])
>>> s
0    caribou
1      tiger
dtype: object

>>> s.str.pad(width=10)
0       caribou
1         tiger
dtype: object

>>> s.str.pad(width=10, side='right', fillchar='-')
0    caribou---
1    tiger-----
dtype: object

>>> s.str.pad(width=10, side='both', fillchar='-')
0    -caribou--
1    --tiger---
dtype: object