topic String format help in Python Questions

String format help

H_A_D_Padmasiri — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:40:00 GMT

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

Re: String format help

curtvprice — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:08:28 GMT

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\\"'

Re: String format help

TimothyHales — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:37:54 GMT

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Timothy

Re: String format help

AnthonyGiles — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:56:16 GMT

Padmasiri,

Try this:

string = "BLVF"

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