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print() examples - leodavinci1990 - Aug-21-2020
print('%10s' % ('test',))What is the purpose or difference between the having the colon after the 'text' string as in code above and without it as in code below:print('%10s' % ('test')The two pieces of code seem to do the same thing!
RE: print() examples - ibreeden - Aug-21-2020
Python 3.6.9 (default, Jul 17 2020, 12:50:27)
[GCC 8.4.0] on linux
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>>> type(('hallo',))
<class 'tuple'>
>>> type(('hallo'))
<class 'str'>
RE: print() examples - Axel_Erfurt - Aug-21-2020
you can add a third one
print('%10s' % ('test',))
print('%10s' % ('test'))
print(f'{" "*5} test')Output: test
test
testRE: print() examples - snippsat - Aug-21-2020
The third one that @Axel_Erfurt show can also be more elegant.
>>> print(f'{" "*5} test')
test
>>> print(f'{"test":>10}')
test So @leodavinci1990 the old string formatting %s should not be used anymore,use f-string>>> h = 'hello'
>>> w = 'world'
>>> print(f'{h:^10}{w:>10}')
hello world
>>> print(f'{h:<10}{w:<10}')
hello world
>>> print(f'{h:^10}{w:^10}')
hello world
>>> print(f'{h:>10}{w:>10}')
hello world
>>> # f-strings support any Python expressions inside the curly braces
>>> a, b = 5, 7
>>> f'{a}/{b} = {a/b:.2}' # limit to two decimal places
'5/7 = 0.71'
>>> for word in 'f-strings are awesome'.split():
... print(f'{word.upper():~^20}')
~~~~~F-STRINGS~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~ARE~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~AWESOME~~~~~~~