On 06/08/15 05:08, tom arnall wrote:
i have read -- with what i think is a reasonable amount of attention
-- all of the doc' i can find about string formatting in python. for
the life of me, i cannot see how any of the other methods do more than
you can do with,
... percent style formatting...
Mostly you are correct, there is not a huge difference in their
capability and there is little to encourage you to adopt the new style
other than the fact that it is "preferred" for new code.
However, there are a few things it can do that percent formatting
can't (or at least only with some difficulty). But I'm not the best
person to list those since I still tend to use % if I'm honest - just
because its shorter and I'm a C kind of guy so it looks clearer
to me!
You can do some clever stuff with items in a collection.
The docs give this example:
>>> coord = (3, 5)
>>> 'X: {0[0]}; Y: {0[1]}'.format(coord)
'X: 3; Y: 5'
Now for a simple two element example you could do
'X: %d; Y: %d' %(coord[0],coord[1])
But I can see that there might be dynamic cases with
more elements where the new style might be easier
I'm sure there are other similar cases, and others
will supply examples.
--
Alan G
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