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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