From 164cf1ce78bcd96fda2a02addc0217ecdf033b5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Brenecki Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:25:03 +0930 Subject: Mention that Python 2.5-style string formatting still works in 3 --- python3.html.markdown | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'python3.html.markdown') diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown index 43d62e77..bc0c05bd 100644 --- a/python3.html.markdown +++ b/python3.html.markdown @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ not False # => True # You can use keywords if you don't want to count. "{name} wants to eat {food}".format(name="Bob", food="lasagna") #=> "Bob wants to eat lasagna" +# If your Python 3 code also needs to run on Python 2.5 and below, you can also +# still use the old style of formatting: +"%s can be %s the %s way" % ("strings", "interpolated", "old") + # None is an object None # => None -- cgit v1.2.3