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

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 …

Python supports formatting values into strings. Although this can include very complicated expressions, the most basic usage is to insert values into a string with the %s placeholder.

Apr 15, 2011 · These string formatting operations have the advantage of working in Python v2 and v3. Take a look at pydoc str sometime: there's a wealth of good stuff in there.

Context python 2.7 string.format() alternative approach that allows custom placeholder syntax Problem We want to use custom placeholder delimiters with python str.format () string.format() …

With Python 3.6+, you can use formatted string literals, also known as f-strings. These are more efficient than str.format. In addition, you can use more efficient floor division instead of …

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

Try not to use python built in functions and variables as local variables (ex: today, year, day). Also, the request from the user is to get today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Can you try and …

The format specifier inside the curly braces follows the Python format string syntax. Specifically, in this case, it consists of the following parts: The empty string before the colon means "take the …

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