Formtting Strings with f-strings

This python tip demonstrates how to use f-strings to format strings in various ways.

Code Example

Consider the following code snippet:

text ='EPIC'
print(f'{text}')
print(f'{text:#<20}')
print(f'{text:_>20}')
print(f'{text:.^20}')

Output

The code of the code snippet above would be as follows:

EPIC
EPIC#################
_________________EPIC
.......EPIC.........

Explanation

In the code snippet, the variable text is assigned the value "EPIC". The four print statements use f-strings to format text in various ways.

• The first print statement simply prints the value of text as is.
• The second print statement pads text with # characters on the right, until the total width of the resulting string is 20 characters.
• The third print statement pads text with _ characters on the left, until the total width of the resulting string is 20 characters.
• The fourth print statement pads text with . characters on both sides, until the total width of the resulting string is 20 characters.

Conclusion

By using f-strings and formatting specifiers, you can easily format strings in Python to suit your needs. In this example, we showed how to pad a string with characters, but there are many other formatting options available with f-strings.