How can I format unicode strings?

[Niklas Norrthon]

On 9 Sep, 12:49, gentlestone <tibor.b... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I have python 2.5
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> return u'{0}'.format(self.name)
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> doesn't work eigther
>
> the error message i've got is:
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> 'unicode' object has no attribute 'format'
>
> is the new formatting style newer then python 2.5?

Yes. The new string formatting appeared in python 2.6. Perhaps there
is some __future__ stuff you can import to get it to work, don't know.
If not you are stuck with the old string formatting until you upgrade
to 2.6 or newer:

>>> print u'Hello %s!' % u'world'
Hello world!

/Niklas Norrthon