On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Useful to
know both though, since lots of people swear by % substitution.
And % formatting is slightly faster - if you end out doing tons of
formatting and you find your script isn't fast enough, it's worth taking a
look there.
-Wayne
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On 25/04/12 16:17, Bala subramanian wrote:
placed depending up on the size of the field. I am thinking to fix the
size of each field.
with open('tmp') as tp:
for line in tp:
...
bond.write(' %s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n' % (p1,p2,p3,p4,new) )
Add your widths to the format string:
> >
> > Not really sure how to do the equivalent with % substitution.
> >
>
> See
> http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations
>
> Mark Lawrence.
Thanks Mark. Based on that, I find .format more intuitive
(especially for alignment) than % substitution. Useful to
k
On 25/04/2012 16:57, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Not really sure how to do the equivalent with % substitution.
Ramit
See
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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> I wrote a small piece of code (given below). The aim is to take each line
> in a file, split the fields, replace the first four fields and then write
> the new lines in a output file. The input and output are given in the
> attached file. The output contains fields which are irregularly placed
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