From 87f1523daa4745e91c2f199869c80424d30b4c02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Tearle <mark@tearle.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 17:02:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Alter display code to pad with spaces and simplify

---
 VendServer/VendingMachine.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VendServer/VendingMachine.py b/VendServer/VendingMachine.py
index 4f4b674..72cec3d 100644
--- a/VendServer/VendingMachine.py
+++ b/VendServer/VendingMachine.py
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ class VendingMachine:
 		return (code == '501', code, string)
 
 	def display(self, string):
-		if len(string) > 10:
-			string = string[0:10]
-		self.wfh.write('D'+string+'\n')
+		# display first ten characters of string, left aligned
+		self.wfh.write('D%-10.10s\n' % string)
+
 		(code, string) = self.get_response()
 		return (code == '300', code, string)
 
-- 
2.20.1