[Tutor] Python = {0}.format

[Ben Finney]

abid saied <abidsaied at gmail.com> writes:

> I’m in the process of teaching myself python.

Congratulations, and welcome.

> Can someone have a look at the text in red and explain please.

Text comes through as text. Don't rely on fonts, colours, or other
non-text markup to survive.

If you want to draw attention to some part of code, it is much better to
reduce the example so it is minimal enough to show only what is
relevant, while still exhibiting the behaviour you want to discuss.

> print("The original quote is: {0}".format(quote))
> print("The new quote is:{0}".format(quote.replace(replaceWord,replaceWith)))
> # Not sure what the {0}.format is doing

Every value in Python is an object, with methods according to its type.
A text string has many methods
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods>.

The ‘format’ method of the ‘str’ type is used to generate formatted
output from a template string. See
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format> and
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings>.

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Ben Finney