Cheat sheet for the new string formatting?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 8 18:20:07 EDT 2015


On 08/06/2015 21:05, Steven K Knight wrote:
>
>
> June 8 2015 3:11 PM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip.montanaro at gmail.com
> <mailto:%22Skip%20Montanaro%22%20<skip.montanaro at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>     I have so far ignored the new string formatting (you know, the stuff
>     with all the braces, dots and brackets that make Python strings look
>     like Perl code <wink>). I am still only using Python 2.7, but have
>     recently started forcing myself to use the print() function. I
>     figure maybe I should also start to come to grips with the fancy new
>     string formatting.
>
>     Is there a cheat sheet around which shows some side-by-side examples
>     of the {}-style and printf-style? I didn't see anything with a few
>     Google searches.
>     Thx,
>     Skip
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think http://pyformat.info/ is what you're looking for.
>
> Thanks,
>> --
> Steven Knight <steven at knight.cx <mailto:steven at knight.cx>>
>

Many thanks for the link, just what the doctor ordered :)

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Mark Lawrence




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