Formatting Python Strings (Summary)

We learned about .format() before f-String literals because you wanted us to understand the precursor function before learning the syntactic sugar version of it.

In the same way, I would like to see a tutorial showing string interpolation using the printf-style (that uses the ‘%’ interpolation operator) (docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting), which is more like a “C style” string interpolator (which would make it the ultimate “under the hood” approach to borrow your phrase).

I would also argue that “%” style interpolation is still relevant: it helps us to understand why the .format() function is so handy to have in the first place; and it is also remains relevant in terms of its use for the python logger module to format messages using late-evalution for it’s performance advantage.

Please consider a tutorial on it as part of a larger course on strings.

Thanks for this well-structured and useful course.

Thanks, Liam.

Thank you, Liam. Very informative.

Awesome veeery handy :) Especially after I tried really hard to find a solution to how to loop through dictionaries and format the output in a tidy way. As a beginner who aspires to become a game developer I discovered my many basic Python knowledge gaps and work now through Real Pythons Basic, which is a fun and way less distressing way than my previous approach of panicking through book chapters which where too demanding because I was too demanding and didn’t know the solution. I will come back to them at a later point. The video tutorials are also very convenient. They show complex concepts and explain the solution in an easy disgestable / understandable way.