output formatting using % in Python

Question

x=123
print('The value of x %2.1d ' %x)

OUTPUT: 123

But it should be ' 1' as maximum length is two and we want only precision of one

Answer 1

If you want to display the first digit of the number 123:
print('The value of x = %.1s' %x)

Answer 2

thanks !
But when I am using %5.5 the output is 00123 ?

Answer 3

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