Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson

String formatting

Formatting strings is simply a way of presenting the information on the screen in a way that conveys the information best. Some examples of formatting are creating column headers, dynamically creating a sentence from a list or stored variable, or stripping extraneous information from the strings, such as excess spaces.

Python supports the creation of dynamic strings. This means you can create a variable containing a value of some type (such as a string or number) and then call that value into your string. You can process a string the same way as in C if you choose to, such as %d for integers and %f for floating-point numbers.

The following screenshot shows this legacy method of formatting strings. Lines 1 and 2 define the ...