String Formatting

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Direct Variable Reference

A common trick you can use when writing strings is to refer directly to variables.

   1 a = "hello, world!"
   2 x = 34
   3 y = 96
   4 
   5 print """
   6 a = %(a)s
   7 x,y = (%(x)s,%(y)s)
   8 """ % vars() # local variables

If you want to refer to global variables, you can replace vars() with globals().

Printing Percentages

   1 percent = lambda x:"%2.2f%%" % x
   2 
   3 print percent(35.3567) # prints "35.35%"

See Also

EscapingHtml, WorkingWithTime

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