Use Python 3 string formatting. This is still available in earlier versions (from 2.6), but is the 'new' way of doing it in Py 3. Note you can either use positional (ordinal) arguments, or named arguments (for the …

Dec 14, 2010 · For handling multiple strings in a list, see How to concatenate (join) items in a list to a single string. See How do I put a variable’s value inside a string (interpolate it into the string)? if …

Sep 24, 2016 · When joining strings Python only has to allocate new memory for the final string, which is much more efficient, but could take longer to compute. Also, because strings are immutable it's often …

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

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See for example How to use variables in SQL statement in Python? for proper techniques. If you just want to print (output) the string, you can prepare it this way first, or if you don't need the string for …

Aug 9, 2010 · 571 Does Python have a string contains substring method? 99% of use cases will be covered using the keyword, in, which returns True or False:

You can avoid having to double the curly brackets by using f-strings ONLY for the parts of the string where you want the f-magic to apply, and use regular (dumb) strings for everything that is literal and …

lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)

Sep 17, 2012 · For handling a few strings in separate variables, see How do I append one string to another in Python?. For the opposite process - creating a list from a string - see How do I split a …