On 6/24/14 5:18 AM, Florian Lindner wrote:
Hello,
I have a format string like:
print "{:10} {:25} = {:6} ({})".format(mod, name, value, description)
description can be None. In this case I want to print an empty string (which
can be achieved by replacing it with 'description or ""') and I want to omit
the brackets. Is there a way to tell the format string to omit a part if an
input variable is None?
.format() is not that sophisticated. One option is to build your string
in pieces like this:
if description:
nice_description = " ({})".format(description)
else:
nice_description = ""
print "{:10} {:25} = {:6}{}".format(mod, name, value, nice_description)
Another option is to use a real templating engine like Mako or Jinja
that lets you use conditionals.
Another question: value can be bool. When I format value with just {} if
prints True or False, when I use {:6} it prints 1 or 0. Is there a way to
get pack to True / False?
You can force it to be a string with "{!s:6}"
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