CSC111 Formatting String Example

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 16:57, 8 February 2015 (EST)

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Source Code

# formatExo.py
# D. Thiebaut
# Demonstration of ways to format strings, ints, and floats
# in Python Version 3.  Refer to Section 5.8.2 in Zelle for
# more information.
#

def version1():
    name = "Alex"
    age  = 12
    coef = 6.188888

    print( "\nVersion 1" )
    print( "name:", name, "age:", age, "coefficient:", coef, "/20" )


def version2():
    name = "Alex"
    age  = 12
    coef = 6.188888

    print( "\nVersion 2" )
    print( "name: {0:>10} age: {1:3} coefficient: {2:1.2f}/20".format(
        name, age, coef ) )

def version3():
    name1 = "Alex"
    age1  = 12
    coef1 = 6.188888
    name2 = "Anastasia"
    age2  = 22
    coef2 = 8

    print( "\nVersion 3" )
    print( "name: {0:>10} age: {1:3} coefficient: {2:1.2f}/20".format(
        name1, age1, coef1 ) )
    

    print( "name: {0:>10} age: {1:3} coefficient: {2:1.2f}/20".format(
        name2, age2, coef2 ) )


def version4():
    name1 = "Alex"
    age1  = 12
    coef1 = 6.188888
    name2 = "Anastasia"
    age2  = 22
    coef2 = 8

    print( "\nVersion 4" )
    print( "name: {0:<10} age: {1:3} coefficient: {2:1.2f}/20".format(
        name1, age1, coef1 ) )
    

    print( "name: {0:<10} age: {1:3} coefficient: {2:1.2f}/20".format(
        name2, age2, coef2 ) )

version1()
version2()
version3()
version4()

Output

Version 1
name: Alex age: 12 coefficient: 6.188888 /20

Version 2
name:       Alex age:  12 coefficient: 6.19/20

Version 3
name:       Alex age:  12 coefficient: 6.19/20
name:  Anastasia age:  22 coefficient: 8.00/20

Version 4
name: Alex       age:  12 coefficient: 6.19/20
name: Anastasia  age:  22 coefficient: 8.00/20