[Tutor] Formatting a string

[Alan Gauld]

"Becky Mcquilling" <ladymcse2000 at gmail.com> wrote

> Basically, I need to format a string as an example:
>
> "He is {what}.format("{wild}")
>
> I want to insert wild in place of what and output the resulting text 
> WITH
> the curly braces.

>>> what = 'wild'
>>> "Here is {what}".format(what=what)
'Here is wild'
>>> "Here is {what}".format(what='wild')
'Here is wild'
>>> "Here is {{what}}".format(what='wild')
'Here is {what}'
>>> "Here is {what}".format(what='{wild}')
'Here is {wild}'
>>>

Take your pick :-)

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