.format

jammie Hargreaves

Hey so you are missing the {} from your string.

For every set of {} you have inside your string the format method will expect to have a parameter for that.

Example

some_string = "This string should contain {} and {}.".format("peas", "carrots")

This would output:

This string should contain peas and carrots.

Notice how I have TWO sets of {}, so format has two parameters which are String data types, but these could easily be variables that hold another data type.

Another way you can use format is:

some_string = "This string should contain {0} and {1}.".format("peas", "carrots")

The 0 and the 1 are referring to the parameter spots inside format method. You can move these around to change where each item shows up inside the string you are calling format on.

This would output the same:

This string should contain peas and carrots.

or we could also do this and swap the numbers inside the {}

some_string = "This string should contain {1} and {0}.".format("peas", "carrots")

This would now output:

This string should contain carrots and peas.