hmmm... this makes other tests fail in the suite... so yeah, maybe a policy decision to make here, but at least the tests should be fixed before this is merged. :)

travis says this:

    def test_odd_width_height_pad_space(string, align, expected):
        """Test odd number width, height, padding, and dots for whitespaces.
    
        :param str string: String to test.
        :param str align: Alignment in any dimension but one at a time.
        :param list expected: Expected output string.
        """
        actual = align_and_pad_cell(string, (align,), (5, 3), (1, 1, 1, 1), '.')
>       assert actual == expected
E       AssertionError: assert ['.......', '....', '.......'] == ['.......', '.....', '.......']
E         At index 1 diff: '.test..' != '..test.'
E         Use -v to get the full diff
tests/test_width_and_alignment/test_align_and_pad_cell.py:205: AssertionError

Oops! I thought I ran tox before pushing, but apparently I forgot.

How does Python's str.center() decide where to put excessive padding? It seems inconsistent:

>>> 'test'.center(7, '.')  # extra padding on the left
'..test.'
>>> '00:00'.center(8, '.')  # extra padding on the right!
'.00:00..'

I wanted to be consistent with str.center() and thought it would always put the extra padding on the right. I was wrong.

CPython does this:

    marg = width - PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self);
    left = marg / 2 + (marg & width & 1);

    return pad(self, left, marg - left, fillchar);

The extra padding goes to the left when both margin and width are odd.

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I can confirm I have better results regarding centering with this PR merged. Would appreciate a release including it.

ping - any reason why this isn't merged yet? see also #70...