On 15/06/13 01:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
What are these two string-formatting styles called?
'%.3f' % x
'{0:.3f}'.format(x)
"String formatting", and "string formatting" *wink*
Sometimes the first is called "string interpolation". Sometimes it is called
"printf-style formatting", after the C function.
Where in the fine manual is their names shown? Thanks!
Like most things to do with strings, the place to start is the section on
strings:
http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str
which leads to:
http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format
and
http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting
For Python 2, start here instead:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html
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Steven
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