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Edit summary for version 3 by Oldboy:
New Python implementation by user [Oldboy]

Version 2

2019-11-04, 01:10:38

Version 3

2019-11-04, 19:08:24

Idiom #216 Pad a string in the center

Prepend extra character c at the beginning and ending of string s to make sure its length is at least m.
After the padding the original content of s should be at the center of the result.
The length is the number of characters, not the number of bytes.

E.g. the with s = "abcd", m=10 and c="X" the result should be "XXXabcdXXX".

Idiom #216 Pad a string in the center

Prepend extra character c at the beginning and ending of string s to make sure its length is at least m.
After the padding the original content of s should be at the center of the result.
The length is the number of characters, not the number of bytes.

E.g. the with s = "abcd", m=10 and c="X" the result should be "XXXabcdXXX".

Code
s = s.center(m, c)