Simple Python Tricks #15

31 Monday Mar 2025

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format method, format strings, Python code, regular expressions, Simple Tricks, str.translate, upside down characters

The political situation in the USA has dampened my mood and crashed my interest in this Simple Tricks series, but in hope of getting at least one post out this month (and on the very last day, no less), I’m going to revisit two topics I’ve written about before.

Back in Issue #8 of this series, I wrote about formatted output (to screen or file), especially using format strings (“f-strings”) and the format function and built-in method. In this issue, I’ll revisit the latter for a more sophisticated example. I also have some goodies for the str.translate method.

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Simple Python Tricks #8

05 Monday Aug 2024

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Python

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format function, format method, format strings, Python code, Simple Tricks

Simple Tricks started late last year with a “project” post that may have been a misfire, though it’s possible I’ll do some other simple projects in the future (though my question is whether they’re really “simple tricks” — I’m not sure the first post in the series qualified).

Regardless, since then we’ve looked at Python comprehensions (see here and here), file handling techniques (see here and here), and function parameters (see here and here). This time we look at printing output with an emphasis on formatted output.

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