[Tutor] sprintf-like functionality in Python

[Alan Gauld]

> What I am trying to do is take data with comes into my program as
hex and
> convert it to ASCII. For instance, I get:
>
> 0x30
> 0x35
>
> together in Python. In C, I'd use sprintf. In short, I start with
0x32
> 0x35 and need to translate it to the integer 25. Thanks.

Can you show how you'd use sprintf in C?
Because I'm afraid the explanation confused me!

FWIW
the equivalent of sprintf in Python is the string format operator %:

mystring = "%s %d\t%3.2f %-8s" % ("Values:",42,56.89732,"tot")

or to make it clearer(?) whats happening:

fmtString = "%s %d\t%3.2f %-8s"      # %N markers the same as in C
vals = ("Values:",42,56.89732,"tot") # tuple, one value per marker
myString = fmtString % vals          # combine them with % operator

Python also provides some extra goodies in that you can use
keywords to identify the substitution values and pluck them
from a dictionary etc.

If that doesn't help send the equivalent C sprintf code and
we'll try to translate.


Alan G.