Aug 3, 2010 · This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting described in String Formatting Operations in new code.

103 The OP & accepted answer focus on formatting time, but the OP question itself discusses formatting numbers to strings in Python. In many cases, the output requires additional data …

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

1990 In Python 2 (and Python 3) you can do: number = 1 print("%02d" % (number,)) Basically % is like printf or sprintf (see docs). For Python 3.+, the same behavior can also be achieved with …

the Python String Format Cookbook: shows examples of the new-style .format() string formatting pyformat.info: compares the old-style % string formatting with the new-style .format() string …

I want to do something like String.Format("[{0}, {1}, {2}]", 1, 2, 3) which returns: [1, 2, 3] How do I do this in Python?

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

Aug 2, 2011 · 12 See tables from Python string formatting to select the proper format layout. In your case it's %.2E.

If you want a string representation for the result of an expression that might not be a string, replace :s by !s, just like with regular, pre-literal string formatting. For details on literal string …

The OP wants to keep curly-braces while you are removing them in your linked answer via .format () and your dictionary unpacking method. If you want to preserve {} in Python 3.6+ and you …