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

103 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 fields be included …

111 I'm using the .format() a lot in my Python 3.5 projects, but I'm afraid that it will be deprecated during the next Python versions because of f-strings, the new kind of string literal.

Use Python 3 string formatting. This is still available in earlier versions (from 2.6), but is the 'new' way of doing it in Py 3. Note you can either use positional (ordinal) arguments, or named arguments (for the …

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 next …

Rather, the Python documentation website behind that link was rewritten. Apart from that, the documentation used to have stronger wording, and literally states that str.format “should be preferred …

The OP wants to keep curly-braces while you are removing them in your linked answer via .format () and your dictionary unpacking method. If you want to preserve {} in Python 3.6+ and you want to insert a …

Nov 7, 2014 · Also, as you can see, the str.format function has its format fields denoted by curly braces {...}, not the % sign. For more information, here is a reference on the Format String Syntax in Python.

Feb 15, 2010 · I have a date string with the format 'Mon Feb 15 2010'. I want to change the format to '15/02/2010'. How can I do this?

Use f-strings if you just need to format something on the spot to print or create a string for other reasons, str.format() to store the template string for re-use and then interpolate values.