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Re: raw format string in string format method?

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Date 2013-03-01 01:22 +1100
Subject Re: raw format string in string format method?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2646.1362061370.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to print a string with the string format method which uses
> {0}, ...
>
> Unfortunately, the string contains TeX commands which use lots of
> braces. Therefore I would have to double all these braces just for the
> format method which makes the string hardly readable.
>
> Is there anything like a "raw" format string and any other means
> to circumvent this?

You could use a different string formatting function, such as
percent-formatting:

"Hello, {0}, this is %s" % some_string

The {0} will be output literally, and the %s will be replaced by the
string. Braces are ignored, percent signs are significant.

ChrisA

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raw format string in string format method? Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> - 2013-02-28 14:11 +0000
  Re: raw format string in string format method? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 01:22 +1100
    Re: raw format string in string format method? Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> - 2013-02-28 14:42 +0000
      Re: raw format string in string format method? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 02:09 +1100
      Re: raw format string in string format method? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 15:27 -0800
        Re: raw format string in string format method? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 15:29 +1100
      Re: raw format string in string format method? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-01 00:00 +0000
  Re: raw format string in string format method? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-28 16:41 +0100
  Re: raw format string in string format method? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 15:06 -0800

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