The OP wants to keep curly-braces while you are removing them in your linked answer via .format () and your dictionary unpacking method. If you want to preserve {} in Python 3.6+ and you want to insert a …

str(number).rjust(string_width, fill_char) This way, the original string is returned unchanged if its length is greater than string_width. Example:

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

How do I print an integer with commas as thousands separators? 1234567 1,234,567 It does not need to be locale-specific to decide between periods and commas.

May 21, 2012 · Note that the % method is not depreciated in Python 3.6. It will continue to be supported in lieu of its similarity to c, c++, etc. str.format() and f-strings are preferred but not enforced.

the Python String Format Cookbook: shows examples of the new-style .format() string formatting pyformat.info: compares the old-style % string formatting with the new-style .format() string …

Apr 15, 2011 · 238 The string format method lets you do some fun stuff with nested keyword arguments. The simplest case:

Use Python 3 string formatting. This is still available in earlier versions (from 2.6), but is the 'new' way of doing it in Py 3. Note you can either use positional (ordinal) arguments, or named arguments (for the …

Mar 15, 2011 · Given a float between 0 and 1, how to print it as a percentage? For example, 1/3 should print as 33%.

Jul 13, 2015 · It's because of that %s converts another python types to string using str() function. but %d just accept an integer decimal. For more information read String Formatting Operations.