String format help

Question

Dear sir

String = "BLVF"

I want to format string  to  \"BLVF\".

I tried it like "\'{}\'".format(String)

It gives me wrong answer. pl give me a help to format this

Thanks

Padmasiri

AntGiles · Answer

Padmasiri,

Try this:

string = "BLVF"

print '"\' + string + '\"'

TimothyHales · Answer

I've moved your post into the Python space. You will get a much better answer here as the GeoNet Help is intended for community help and feedback. You can see more on the community structure, and what topics are under each space from the following documents:

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Thanks!

Timothy

curtvprice · Answer

You said this didn't work:

"\'{}\'".format(String)

I suggest this:

'"{}"'.format(string)

I good way to test this kind of thing is at the Python command line. This prints the string representation of the result, in this example, the output is: double quote, t, e, s, t, double quote:

>>> '"{}"'.format("test")
'"test"'
>>> '"\test\"'
'"\test\"'