For reference: Python 3 documentation for the newer format() formatting style and the older % -based formatting style.

Jul 13, 2015 · It's because of that %s converts another python types to string using str() function. but %d just accept an integer decimal. For more information read String Formatting Operations.

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

Mar 22, 2013 · Format strings contain “replacement fields” surrounded by curly braces {}. Anything that is not contained in braces is considered literal text, which is copied unchanged to …

The OP & accepted answer focus on formatting time, but the OP question itself discusses formatting numbers to strings in Python. In many cases, the output requires additional data …

Using custom placeholder tokens with python string.format() Context python 2.7 string.format() alternative approach that allows custom placeholder syntax Problem We want to use custom …

The format specifier inside the curly braces follows the Python format string syntax. Specifically, in this case, it consists of the following parts: The empty string before the colon means "take the …

Jul 2, 2012 · Is it possible to do partial string formatting with the advanced string formatting methods, similar to the string template safe_substitute() function? For example: s = '{foo} {bar}' …

I've been reading an official Python book for 30 minutes trying to find out how to do this. Problem: I need to put a string in a certain length "field". For example, if the name field was 15 …

Apr 14, 2011 · I need to create a string of hex digits from a list of random integers (0-255). Each hex digit should be represented by two characters: 5 - "05", 16 - "10", etc.