From cdbc6967e863aa9f636ac70823d7531cd1d7efd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:56:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] #11405: do not reference the string module again for its deprecated functions, only for Template class. --- Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 0e04962a3d2..ca908a3d323 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -19,16 +19,17 @@ the :keyword:`print` statement. (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``. See the Library Reference for more information on this.) -.. index:: module: string - Often you'll want more control over the formatting of your output than simply printing space-separated values. There are two ways to format your output; the first way is to do all the string handling yourself; using string slicing and concatenation operations you can create any layout you can imagine. The -standard module :mod:`string` contains some useful operations for padding +string types have some methods that perform useful operations for padding strings to a given column width; these will be discussed shortly. The second way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method. +The :mod:`string` module contains a :class:`~string.Template` class which offers +yet another way to substitute values into strings. + One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily, Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr` or :func:`str` functions.