Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
> I have a file where I used a lot of {0}, {1} and {2}. Most but not all
> are changed to {0:.3E}, {1:.3E} and {2:.3E}. But when I want to change
> the format I come in dependency hell.
>
> I could do something like:
> format = ':.3E'
> fmt0 = '{0' + format + '}
> fmt1 = '{1' + format + '}
> fmt2 = '{2' + format + '}
>
> and replace occurrences of:
> 'before {0} after'
> with:
> 'before ' + fmt0 + ' after'
>
> But that does not really make me happy. Is there a better way?
'Better' is often a bit tricky. You could always factor the formatted
printing into a function, but you will have considered that. You could
pass the format to used to the format function:
format_for_numbers = '.3E'
...
'x = {0:{nfmt}}, y = {1:{nfmt}}'.format(3.4, 4.5, nfmt=format_for_numbers);
or you could do that with just the width (if that is the variable part):
'x = {0:.{nwd}E}, y = {1:.{nwd}E}'.format(3.4, 4.5, nwd=4);
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