Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

Formatting strings

We can use the format() method to format a string in Python. This method is very flexible and powerful when displaying output in any particular format. The format() method holds curly braces {} as placeholders that can be replaced by any particular arguments according to a specific order. Have a look at these next examples.

Let's first see an example for a default order:

# Default order String1 = "{} {} {}".format('Exploratory ', 'Data ', 'Analysis') print("Print String in default order: ") print(String1)

The output of the preceding code is as follows:

Print String in default order:Exploratory Data Analysis

In addition to this default order, we can use positional formatting. For example, you have a string such as