[Tutor] Formatting a string

[Karim]

Hello,

 >>> "He is {what}".format(what="{wild}")
'He is {wild}'

Regards
Karim

On 02/01/2011 09:44 AM, Becky Mcquilling wrote:
> Quick question to the group to solve an immediate problem and then if 
> anyone has a dead simple reference on formatting strings it would be 
> greatly appreciated as I'm finding this to be pretty confusing.
>
> Basically, I need to format a string as an example:
>
> "
>
> I want to insert wild in place of what and output the resulting text 
> WITH the curly braces.  This is not the actual code but is the idea of 
> what I need to do.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Becky
>
>
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