Esmail wrote: > Hello all, > > I use the print method with % for formatting my output to > the console since I am quite familiar with printf from my > C days, and I like it quite well. > > I am wondering if there is a way to use print to write > formatted output to files? > > Also, it seems like I read that formatting with print is > going away eventually and we should start using something > else? Is that true and if so, what? > > Thanks, > Esmail
String formatting has nothing to do with the print statement/function. It's an operator, just like doing "foo" + "bar"; you can use it wherever you want. Look: >>> "%s" % ('foo',) 'foo' >>> len("%s" % ('foo',)) 3 >>> d = {} >>> d["%s" % ('foo',)] = 1 >>> d {'foo': 1} >>> ("%s" % ('foo',)).upper() 'FOO' >>> See <http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting> Also see <http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings> for information on the replacement for the old string formatting, Python 2.6's new str.format(). -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list