Inserting the same value multiple times when formatting a string
You can use advanced string formatting, available in Python 2.6 and Python 3.x: incoming = ‘arbit’ result=”{0} hello world {0} hello world {0}”.format(incoming)
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How do I escape curly-brace ({}) characters in a string while using .format (or an f-string)?
You need to double the {{ and }}: >>> x = ” {{ Hello }} {0} ” >>> print(x.format(42)) ‘ { Hello } 42 ‘ Here’s the relevant part of the Python documentation for format string syntax: Format strings contain “replacement fields” surrounded by curly braces {}. Anything that is not contained in braces is … Read more
Using printf with a non-null terminated string
There is a possibility with printf, it goes like this: printf(“%.*s”, stringLength, pointerToString); No need to copy anything, no need to modify the original string or buffer.
Where’s the DateTime ‘Z’ format specifier?
Maybe the “K” format specifier would be of some use. This is the only one that seems to mention the use of capital “Z”. “Z” is kind of a unique case for DateTimes. The literal “Z” is actually part of the ISO 8601 datetime standard for UTC times. When “Z” (Zulu) is tacked on the … Read more
How to output serialized JSON view data as an array of objects, instead of wrapped in an outer object?
Set a string for the _serialize option instead of an array. An array indicates that there might be multiple view vars that need to be serialized, and that requires them to be packed into separate object properties. $this->set(array( ‘platformusers’ => $platformusers, ‘_serialize’ => ‘platformusers’ )); That should give you the desired result.
Python: format string with custom delimiters [duplicate]
I don’t think it is possible to use alternative delimiters. You need to use double-curly braces {{ }} for curly braces that you don’t want to be replaced by format(): inp = “”” DATABASE = {{ ‘name’: ‘{DB_NAME}’ }}””” dictionary = {‘DB_NAME’: ‘abc’} output = inp.format(**dictionary) print(output) Output DATABASE = { ‘name’: ‘abc’ }
From String to NSDate in Swift
If the above doesn’t work, this should do the trick: let formatter = DateFormatter() formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: “US_en”) formatter.dateFormat = “E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z” let date = formatter.date(from: “Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:50:12 +0000”)
Set data type like number, text and date in excel column using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel in c#
To set a range to text: xlYourRange.NumberFormat = “@”; You can also prefix a value you put in a cell with an apostrophe for it to format it as text: xlYourRange.Value = “‘0123456”; To set a range to number xlYourRange.NumberFormat = “0”; Obviously if you want to set the format for the entire column then … Read more
Google Apps Script date format issue (Utilities.formatDate)
The Utilities.formatDate() utility formats a javascript String. However, when written out to the spreadsheet, the new row of data is interpreted by Google Sheets to determine data types and appropriate formatting, just as if you’d typed it in through the user interface. Since you’ve got a recognizable date string, Google Sheets decides it’s a Date, … Read more
python format datetime with “st”, “nd”, “rd”, “th” (english ordinal suffix) like PHP’s “S”
The django.utils.dateformat has a function format that takes two arguments, the first one being the date (a datetime.date [[or datetime.datetime]] instance, where datetime is the module in Python’s standard library), the second one being the format string, and returns the resulting formatted string. The uppercase-S format item (if part of the format string, of course) … Read more