​Advanced Formatting with Python's f-strings

Today, we're diving into an advanced Python tip: f-strings!"

"F-strings, or formatted string literals, were introduced in Python 3.6. They make string formatting super easy and readable."

Basic example of using f-string:

name = "Alice"
age = 30
print(f"Hello, {name}. You are {age} years old.")

But, we can do much more with f-strings, let's have a look:

To format the number to desired decimal positions, e.g. : 

x=7869.3278654

print(f"{x:.4f}")

Here .4f formats the number to 4 decimal places

Change the alignment using <,>,^ :
 

name="John"

print(f"{name:>30}")

It will shift the value by 30 characters left

Show expressions inside the f-string: "F-strings can also evaluate expressions directly inside the curly braces!"
 

print(“Value of 5*4 is {5*4}”)

F-strings are powerful and flexible! Try these advanced formatting tricks in your next Python project

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