[format] Forum Topics

We have had several snippets on the format() function. This one gives a condensed overview of the many options you have.

This snippet prints a python list of strings in multicolumn format (similarly to linux `ls` command). It uses module prettytable, available in [pypi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PrettyTable).

The syntax of the [icode]str.format()[/icode] method described in [url=http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings]the python 2.6 documentation[/url] looks both powerful and complex. The idea of this thread is to start a collection of nice formatting examples which will ease the task of mastering this function. Please post useful examples, and document them :)

Here is my celebration post for entering level 3 in Project Euler. Again I left in my debug prints. I am in process of adapting myself to new .format style of formatting. I have commented out the prints though to get visible the running time of the functions own action. …

Is it Mother Date and Father Time? Any way, getting all the different date and time displays working can be imperturbably perplexing at times. You take a look at it in this Windows Console Application.

Hello Everyone, my first post - so please don't shoot me if it goes wrong! I'd been looking for this for some time now and have seen a number of related queries but no solutions. I cannot take credit for the whole code here, but I did adapt it to …

Here is my newest baby, the pretty.py module, born today, which I start to use instead of pprint module. Reason to make this (in addition to that it is possible to do) is that I had this problem, sorry long, LONG example: UPDATE: take out the [CODE]or j[/CODE] that was …