Matthew Pirritano wrote:
But I have very large blocks of text and I thought there was another way
like
X = "sky"
Y = "blue"
"the %(X)s is %(Y)s"
Unless you use the string formatting operator %, strings containing "%"
are just strings. Large or small, the way you do string formatting is
with the % operator. Python will never do string formatting without an
explicit command to do so:
text % value # Single non-tuple argument
text % (value, value, ...) # Multiple arguments
They don't have to be string literals, they can be variables:
text = "Hello, I'd like to have an %s"
value = "argument"
print text % value
You can also use named arguments by using a dictionary:
text = "Hello, I'd like to have an %(X)s"
values = {"X": "argument"}
print text % values
More details in the Fine Manual:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting
Alternatives include the new advanced formatting method:
text.format()
http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings
and "$" substitutions with the string module:
import string
string.Template
http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#template-strings
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Steven
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