The OP wants to keep curly-braces while you are removing them in your linked answer via .format () and your dictionary unpacking method. If you want to preserve {} in Python 3.6+ and you …

158 Assuming you're using Python's logging module, you can pass the string formatting arguments as arguments to the .debug() method rather than doing the formatting yourself: …

The OP & accepted answer focus on formatting time, but the OP question itself discusses formatting numbers to strings in Python. In many cases, the output requires additional data …

Jun 27, 2017 · See Why isn't it possible to use backslashes inside the braces of f-strings? How can I work around the problem? for some additional discussion of why the limitation exists.

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Use f-strings if you just need to format something on the spot to print or create a string for other reasons, str.format() to store the template string for re-use and then interpolate values.

76 This question already has answers here: How do I format a number with a variable number of digits in Python? (7 answers)

Sep 5, 2015 · The advantage of using a regular string template and str.format() is that you can swap out the template, the advantage of f-strings is that makes for very readable and compact …

Oct 21, 2009 · How do I round a decimal to a particular number of decimal places using the Python 3.0 format function?

Alternatively, you can also create a multiline f-string with triple quotes where literal newlines are considered part of the string. However, any spaces at the start of the line would also be part of …