Python - short way to unpack list for string formatting operator?

Question

Variations of the * or ** operators don\'t seem to work, unfortunately:

lstData = [1,2,3,4]
str = \'The %s are %d, %d, %d, and %d\' % (\'numbers\', *lstData)         


        

Answer 1

Use format:

str = 'The {} are {}, {}, {}, and {}'.format('numbers', *lstData)

see the docs for more details about possible formatting (floats, decimal points, conversion, ..).