String formatting with variables

The method to use is: str.format(*args, **kwargs)

Perform a string formatting operation. The string on which this method is called can contain literal text or replacement fields delimited by braces {}. Each replacement field contains either the numeric index of a positional argument, or the name of a keyword argument. Returns a copy of the string where each replacement field is replaced with the string value of the corresponding argument.>>>

>>> "The sum of 1 + 2 is {0}".format(1+2)
'The sum of 1 + 2 is 3'

See Format String Syntax for a description of the various formatting options that can be specified in format strings.

Note

When formatting a number (int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and subclasses) with the n type (ex: '{:n}'.format(1234)), the function temporarily sets the LC_CTYPE locale to the LC_NUMERIC locale to decode decimal_point and thousands_sep fields of localeconv() if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and the LC_NUMERIC locale is different than the LC_CTYPE locale. This temporary change affects other threads.

Changed in version 3.7: When formatting a number with the n type, the function sets temporarily the LC_CTYPE locale to the LC_NUMERIC locale in some cases.

my_num = 5
my_str = "Hello"

f = "my_num is {}, and my_str is \"{}\".".format(my_num, my_str)
print(f)

Will print:

my_num is 5, and my_str is "Hello".

To format a string with variables, you can either use keyword arguments in .format ('Insert {n} here'.format(n=num)), refer to them by position index explicitly (like 'Insert {0} here'.format(num)) or implicitly (like 'Insert {} here'.format(num)). You can use double quotation marks inside single quotation marks and the way around, but to nest the same set of quotation marks, you need to escape them with a slash like \".