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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
| Subject | Re: string interpolation for python |
| Date | Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:29:11 -0400 |
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On 3/31/2012 2:22 AM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd really like to share this idea of string interpolation for formatting.
> Let's start with some code:
>
> >>> name = "Shrek"
> >>> print( "Hi, $name$!")
> Hi, Shrek!
> >>> balls = 30
> >>> print( "We have $balls$ balls.")
> We have 30 balls
You can already do essentially that without adding a special-case string
formatting method to the general methods we already have.
>>> balls = 5
>>> people = 3
>>> 'The {people} people have {balls} balls.'.format(**locals())
'The 3 people have 5 balls.'
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Terry Jan Reedy
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