On 12/31/2011 2:24 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 12/31/11 12:57, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
format is a method of the string class. You store the string the same way
you would any other.
formatter = "Hello, {}"
print(formatter.format("world"))
Just to note that this syntax doesn't quite work in some earlier
versions (tested below in 2.6, which came stock in Debian Stable)
Autonumbering of {} was introduced, at my suggestion, in 3.1 and
included with 2.7 (I presume).
>>> formatter = "Hello, {}"
>>> print(formatter.format("world"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: zero length field name in format
It needs to be spelled "{0}"
-tkc
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