Inserting the same value multiple times when formatting a string

python string format
Goutham picture Goutham · Aug 4, 2009 · Viewed 120.7k times · Source

I have a string of this form

s='arbit'
string='%s hello world %s hello world %s' %(s,s,s)

All the %s in string have the same value (i.e. s). Is there a better way of writing this? (Rather than listing out s three times)

Answer

Adam Rosenfield picture Adam Rosenfield · Aug 4, 2009

You can use advanced string formatting, available in Python 2.6 and Python 3.x:

incoming = 'arbit'
result = '{0} hello world {0} hello world {0}'.format(incoming)

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