How are booleans formatted in Strings in Python?

Question

I see I can\'t do:

\"%b %b\" % (True, False)

in Python. I guessed %b for b(oolean). Is there something like this?

Answer 1

To update this for Python-3 you can do this

"{} {}".format(True, False)

However if you want to actually format the string (e.g. add white space), you encounter Python casting the boolean into the underlying C value (i.e. an int), e.g.

>>> "{:<8} {}".format(True, False)
'1        False'

To get around this you can cast True as a string, e.g.

>>> "{:<8} {}".format(str(True), False)
'True     False'