Learn Python the Hard Way: A Deceptively Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Data Science, 5th Edition

Exercise 8

Formatting Strings Manually

We will now see how to do a more complicated formatting of a string. This code looks complex, but if you do your comments above each line and break each thing down to its parts, you’ll understand it.

Listing 8.1: ex8.py

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 1   formatter = "{} {} {} {}"
 2
 3   print(formatter.format(1, 2, 3, 4))
 4   print(formatter.format("one", "two", "three", "four"))
 5   print(formatter.format(True, False, False, True))
 6   print(formatter.format(formatter, formatter, formatter, formatter))
 7   print(formatter.format(
 8       "Try your",
 9       "Own text here",
10       "Maybe a poem",
11       "Or a song about fear"
12   ))

What You Should See

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1 1 2 3 4 2 one two three four 3 True False False True ...