For reference: Python 3 documentation for the newer format() formatting style and the older % -based formatting style.

Jul 29, 2020 · Also, there are two type of format in python 3x: the format expression and the format function. the format expression is actually this '%' and many more on 'format'.

The OP & accepted answer focus on formatting time, but the OP question itself discusses formatting numbers to strings in Python. In many cases, the output requires additional data fields be included …

the Python String Format Cookbook: shows examples of the new-style .format() string formatting pyformat.info: compares the old-style % string formatting with the new-style .format() string …

format(a, 'b') returns the binary value of a in string format. To convert a binary string back to integer, use int () function.

The format() function simply formats the input following the Format Specification mini language. The # makes the format include the 0b prefix, and the 010 size formats the output to fit in 10 characters …

Nov 9, 2011 · How do I round a decimal to a particular number of decimal places using the Python 3.0 format function?

Apr 30, 2019 · Python actually does have something already built in for this, the ability to do operations such as '{0:b}'.format(42), which will give you the bit pattern (in a string) for 42, or 101010.

I'm using the .format() a lot in my Python 3.5 projects, but I'm afraid that it will be deprecated during the next Python versions because of f-strings, the new kind of string literal. >>>...

Formats Python docstrings can be written following several formats as the other posts showed. However the default Sphinx docstring format was not mentioned and is based on reStructuredText (reST). You …