How can I format unicode strings?

Wed Sep 9 07:29:24 EDT 2009

gentlestone <tibor.beck at hotmail.com> wrote:
> the error message i've got is:
>> 'unicode' object has no attribute 'format'
>> is the new formatting style newer then python 2.5?
>>Have you tried reading the documentation? It generally tells you which 
version of Python introduced a feature:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
> str.format(format_string, *args, **kwargs)¶
>> Perform a string formatting operation. The format_string argument
> can contain literal text or replacement fields delimited by braces
> {}. Each replacement field contains either the numeric index of a
> positional argument, or the name of a keyword argument. Returns a
> copy of format_string where each replacement field is replaced
> with the string value of the corresponding argument. 
>> >>> "The sum of 1 + 2 is {0}".format(1+2)
> 'The sum of 1 + 2 is 3'
>> See Format String Syntax for a description of the various
> formatting options that can be specified in format strings. 
>> This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python
> 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting described in
> String Formatting Operations in new code. 
>> New in version 2.6.

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