For reference: Python 3 documentation for the newer format() formatting style and the older % -based formatting style.

Use Python 3 string formatting. This is still available in earlier versions (from 2.6), but is the 'new' way of doing it in Py 3. Note you can either use positional (ordinal) arguments, or named …

253 It is a string formatting syntax (which it borrows from C). Please see "PyFormat": Python supports formatting values into strings. Although this can include very complicated …

Aug 3, 2010 · This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting described in String Formatting Operations in new code.

91 As Python 3.0 and 3.1 are EOL'ed and no one uses them, you can and should use str.format_map(mapping) (Python 3.2+): Similar to str.format(**mapping), except that mapping …

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Using custom placeholder tokens with python string.format() Context python 2.7 string.format() alternative approach that allows custom placeholder syntax Problem We want to use custom …

Jul 24, 2012 · I was wondering if there is a advantage of using template strings instead of the new advanced string formatting?

str(number).rjust(string_width, fill_char) This way, the original string is returned unchanged if its length is greater than string_width. Example:

Apr 15, 2011 · 238 The string format method lets you do some fun stuff with nested keyword arguments. The simplest case: