On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:20 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > The format method, on the other hand, belongs to the format string it's > attached to. In this example: > > 'The new price is {}' .format(newPrice, '.2f') > > the format string is 'The new price is {}' and you're calling its 'format' > method with 2 values for that string, the first being 4.0 (used) and the > second on being '.2f' (unused). > > What you want is: > > print('The new price is {:.2f}'.format(newPrice))
Why doesn't str.format raise an exception when passed extra positional arguments? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list