string-formatting

I want to convert strings containing escaped characters to their normal form, the same way Python's lexical parser does: >>> escaped_str = 'One \\\'example\\\'' >>> print(escaped_str) One \'Example\' >>> normal_str = normalize_str(escaped_str) >>> print(normal_str) One 'Example' Of course the boring way will be to replace all known escaped characters one by one: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals How would you implement normalize_str() in the above code? >>> escaped_str = 'One \\\'example\\\'' >>> print escaped_str.encode('string_escape') One \\\'example\\\'

I have bind my Amount Label's Content Property to a decimal property via DataContext. I am trying to apply stringformat but see no effect. Does StringFormat feature work on Label controls ?? Please tell me on which controls does this feature work. BTW following is the code for the Label Control for whom i want to apply the currency formatting <Label Grid.Column="2" Content="{Binding Path=Amount, StringFormat={}{0:C}}" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="100,10,0,0" Name="tb" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="120" /> StringFormat works on properties of type string (when the object

In Python 3, one can format a string like: "{0}, {1}, {2}".format(1, 2, 3) But how to format bytes? b"{0}, {1}, {2}".format(1, 2, 3) raises AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'format' . If there is no format method for bytes, how to do the formatting or "rewriting" of bytes? And as of 3.5 % formatting will work for bytes , too! https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133621.html Another way would be: "{0}, {1}, {2}".format(1, 2, 3).encode() Tested on IPython 1.1.0 & Python 3.2.3 Interestingly .format() doesn't appear to be supported for byte-sequences; as you have

The user will enter a dollar value as an int , and I'd like to convert the result into a shortened, formatted string. So if the user enters 1700, the string would say "$1.7k". If the user enters 32600000, the string would say "$32.6m". Update Here's the code I have so far. It seems to be working for numbers ~10k. I would just add more if statements for bigger numbers. But is there a more efficient way to do this? NSNumberFormatter *nformat = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init]; [nformat setFormatterBehavior:NSNumberFormatterBehavior10_4]; [nformat setCurrencySymbol:@"$"]; [nformat setNumberStyle

I have a collection of textblocks that I'm going to be showing and I'm needing the text of each textblock to be displayed differently. I'm currently saving the format string in the tag property and I'm needing to display the text in this format. How do I bind the StringFormat section? Something like the section below: <TextBlock Tag="{Binding MyFormatString}" Text="{Binding MyProperty, StringFormat='{}{0:MyTag}'}" /> Since BindingBase.StringFormat is not a dependency property, I do not think that you can bind it. If the formatting string varies, I'm afraid you will have to resort to something

I've some lists and more complex structures containing floats. When printing them, I see the floats with a lot of decimal digits, but when printing, I don't need all of them. So I would like to define a custom format (e.g. 2 or 3 decimals) when floats are printed. I need to use floats and not Decimal. Also, I'm not allowed to truncate/round floats. Is there a way to change the default behavior? Donald Miner You are not allowed to monkeypatch C types, like Ignacio said. However, if you are terribly pressed in doing so and you know some C, you could go modify the Python interpreter source code

I would like a javascript function that mimics the python .format() function that works like .format(*args, **kwargs) A previous question gives a possible (but not complete) solution for '.format(*args) JavaScript equivalent to printf/string.format I would like to be able to do "hello {} and {}".format("you", "bob" ==> hello you and bob "hello {0} and {1}".format("you", "bob") ==> hello you and bob "hello {0} and {1} and {a}".format("you", "bob",a="mary") ==> hello you and bob and mary "hello {0} and {1} and {a} and {2}".format("you", "bob","jill",a="mary") ==> hello you and bob and mary and