[Tutor] String formatting question.

[James Reynolds]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1pkl at aim.com> wrote:

> On 03/29/2011 03:41 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> > Is there a difference (or preference) between using the following?
> > "%s %d" % (var,num)
> > VERSUS
> > "{0} {1}".format(var,num)
> >
> >
> > Ramit
>
> If you're using Python 3, use the second one. If you're using Python 2,
> you have no option but to use the first, as far as I know. Maybe Python
> 2.7 has that formatting, I'm not sure.
>
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you can use string{0}.format(var) in python 2.6. I use it all the time. I
never use the other % method.
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