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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-07-26 22:27:04 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-07-26 22:27:04 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 65253 via svnmerge from
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@@ -146,12 +146,14 @@ the position of the object passed into the format method. ::
If keyword arguments are used in the format method, their values are referred to
by using the name of the argument. ::
- >>> print('This {food} is {adjective}.'.format(food='spam', adjective='absolutely horrible'))
+ >>> print('This {food} is {adjective}.'.format(
+ ... food='spam', adjective='absolutely horrible'))
This spam is absolutely horrible.
Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined::
- >>> print('The story of {0}, {1}, and {other}.'.format('Bill', 'Manfred', other='Georg'))
+ >>> print('The story of {0}, {1}, and {other}.'.format('Bill', 'Manfred',
+ other='Georg'))
The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg.
An optional ``':``` and format specifier can follow the field name. This also
@@ -179,7 +181,8 @@ instead of by position. This can be done by simply passing the dict and using
square brackets ``'[]'`` to access the keys ::
>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 8637678}
- >>> print('Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; Dcab: {0[Dcab]:d}'.format(table))
+ >>> print('Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; '
+ 'Dcab: {0[Dcab]:d}'.format(table))
Jack: 4098; Sjoerd: 4127; Dcab: 8637678
This could also be done by passing the table as keyword arguments with the '**'