string_formatting.ipynb

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      "# String Formatting\n",
      "\n",
      "This snippit was written by [Chris R. Albon](http://www.chrisralbon.com/) and is part of his collection of [well-documented Python snippits](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py). All code is written in Python 3 in iPython notebook and offered under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)."
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     "source": [
      "### Import the sys module"
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     "input": [
      "import sys"
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     "source": [
      "### Print a string with 1 digit and one string."
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "'This is %d %s bird!' % (1, 'dead')"
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       "prompt_number": 1,
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        "'This is 1dead bird!'"
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     "prompt_number": 1
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     "source": [
      "### Print a dictionary based string"
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "'%(number)d more %(food)s' % {'number' : 1, 'food' : 'burger'}"
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       "prompt_number": 5,
       "text": [
        "'1 more burger'"
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     "prompt_number": 5
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     "source": [
      "### Print a string about my laptop."
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     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "'My {1[kind]} runs {0.platform}'.format(sys, {'kind': 'laptop'})"
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        "'My laptop runs darwin'"
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     "source": [
      "## String Formatting Codes\n",
      "- %s string\n",
      "- %r repr string\n",
      "- %c character (integer or string)\n",
      "- %d decimal\n",
      "- %i integer\n",
      "- %x hex integer\n",
      "- %X same as X but with uppercase\n",
      "- %e floating point lowercase\n",
      "- %E floating point uppercase\n",
      "- %f floating point decimal lowercase\n",
      "- %F floating point decimal uppercase\n",
      "- %g floating point e or f\n",
      "- %G floating point E or F\n",
      "- %% literal %"
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