Use Python 3 string formatting. This is still available in earlier versions (from 2.6), but is the 'new' way of doing it in Py 3. Note you can either use positional (ordinal) arguments, or named arguments (for the …

For reference: Python 3 documentation for the newer format() formatting style and the older % -based formatting style.

How do I print an integer with commas as thousands separators? 1234567 1,234,567 It does not need to be locale-specific to decide between periods and commas.

Using custom placeholder tokens with python string.format() Context python 2.7 string.format() alternative approach that allows custom placeholder syntax Problem We want to use custom …

May 21, 2012 · Note that the % method is not depreciated in Python 3.6. It will continue to be supported in lieu of its similarity to c, c++, etc. str.format() and f-strings are preferred but not enforced.

Apr 15, 2011 · 238 The string format method lets you do some fun stuff with nested keyword arguments. The simplest case:

str(number).rjust(string_width, fill_char) This way, the original string is returned unchanged if its length is greater than string_width. Example:

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Starting with Python 3.6, formatting in Python can be done using formatted string literals or f-strings:

The format specifier inside the curly braces follows the Python format string syntax. Specifically, in this case, it consists of the following parts: The empty string before the colon means "take the next …