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Re: raw format string in string format method?

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On 28/02/2013 14:42, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:22:48 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Originally I had used percent-formatting
> But isn't  it deprecated in Python 3.X ?
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
>

Nope please see 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116790.html

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence

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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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