Using Python String Formatting with Lists

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SabreWolfy picture SabreWolfy · Sep 27, 2011 · Viewed 230.9k times · Source

I construct a string s in Python 2.6.5 which will have a varying number of %s tokens, which match the number of entries in list x. I need to write out a formatted string. The following doesn't work, but indicates what I'm trying to do. In this example, there are three %s tokens and the list has three entries.

s = '%s BLAH %s FOO %s BAR'
x = ['1', '2', '3']
print s % (x)

I'd like the output string to be:

1 BLAH 2 FOO 3 BAR

Answer

Cédric Julien picture Cédric Julien · Sep 27, 2011

You should take a look to the format method of python. You could then define your formatting string like this :

>>> s = '{0} BLAH BLAH {1} BLAH {2} BLAH BLIH BLEH'
>>> x = ['1', '2', '3']
>>> print s.format(*x)
'1 BLAH BLAH 2 BLAH 3 BLAH BLIH BLEH'

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