String slices

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2019-08-10 09:10:12 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 09Aug2019 22:28, Paul St George <email at paulstgeorge.com> wrote:
> > On 09/08/2019 16:29, Rhodri James wrote:
> > > (Actually I would probably use outstream.write() and do my own
> > > formatting, but let's not get side-tracked ;-)
> > > 
> > I would love to hear your outstream.write() side-track!
> 
> I am not Rhodri James, but you can just write strings to text files:
> 
>  outstream.write("X: ")  # note, includes the space separator
>  outstream.write(str(thing[0]))
>  outstring.write("\n")

You can also format the string before passing it to write (which is
probably what Rhodri meant by "do my own formatting", like this:

    outstream.write("X: %7.2f\n" % thing[0])

or this

    outstream.write("X: {0:7.2f}\n".format(thing[0]))

or (since Python 3.6) this:

    outstream.write(f"X: {thing[0]:7.2f}\n")

There are of course many variants to all three methods.

        hp

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