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Atlas Sullivan
Atlas Sullivan

Reputation: 189

Can python's string format operator be applied to a class?

I was wondering if the string formatting operator , '%', can be applied to a class with subclasses in python, as seen below:

"I'm %(foo.name)s!" % class

I know it can be applied to a dictionary, but it doesn't seem to be able to access values in multidimensional dictionaries as far as I am aware.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 495

Answers (1)

BoarGules
BoarGules

Reputation: 16942

You can't do % class but that shouldn't be troublesome because you will normally want to print a class instance. You can do what you want with a class instance. Given this class:

class Foo():
    def __init__(self, name, id):
        self.name = name
        self.id = id

you can do 

>>> foo = Foo("Bar",1)
>>> f"I'm a {foo.name}"
"I'm a Bar"

or, if you're not using Python 3.7 yet

>>> "I'm a {.name}".format(foo)
"I'm a Bar"

and if you really want to use the % operator

>>> "I'm a %(name)s" % vars(foo)
"I'm a Bar"

Upvotes: 2

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