String formatting in Python

Question

I want to do something like String.Format(\"[{0}, {1}, {2}]\", 1, 2, 3) which returns:

[1, 2, 3]

How do I do this in Python?

Answer 1

You're looking for string formatting, which in python is based on the sprintf function in C.

print "[%s, %s, %s]" % (1, 2, 3)

For a complete reference look here: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting