Tag: Strings & sequences
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The relative speeds of str.format and %
My most recent blog post talked about the use of str.format instead of the % operator for interpolating values into strings. Some people who read the post wondered about their relative speeds. I should first note that my first response to this is: I don’t really care that much. I’m not saying that speed isn’t…
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Teaching an old dog new tricks — or, how I learned to love Python’s str.format, and gave up on %
I have been programming in Python for many years. One of the things that I wondered, soon after starting to work in Python, was how you can get Perl-style variable interpolation. After all, Perl (like the Unix shell) supports two types of quotes — single quotes (in which everything is taken literally) and double quotes…