5 Useful F-String Tricks In Python

Here are my top 5 most useful f-string formatting tricks that I use everyday in Python.
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  • @chyldstudios
    @chyldstudios2 ай бұрын

    the "=" trick in the f-string is fire.

  • @m-zurowski

    @m-zurowski

    2 ай бұрын

    It made my day - I'm gonna test run it in a loop with some random dictionary to see how many cool tricks it can do (like reading current settings) :)

  • @m-zurowski

    @m-zurowski

    2 ай бұрын

    ok, my idea didn't work as expected 😅

  • @dark_brownie

    @dark_brownie

    14 күн бұрын

    Yeah, completely agree it is amazing

  • @sunwukong6268
    @sunwukong62683 ай бұрын

    Ever since I learned f-strings...I love them.

  • @GentleMannOfHats

    @GentleMannOfHats

    2 ай бұрын

    I wish I had known sooner!!

  • @rickymort135

    @rickymort135

    2 ай бұрын

    And I love you.... Sorry if I made things awkward... 😬 Oof this awkward isn't it?

  • @_Loki__Odinson_
    @_Loki__Odinson_3 ай бұрын

    This is the first time I have seen someone specify datatype for variables in python, and I honestly loved it. Great tips btw.

  • @Indently

    @Indently

    3 ай бұрын

    That's the hype for type annotations that I love to see!

  • @Naej7

    @Naej7

    3 ай бұрын

    Not using type annotations should be banned by law

  • @_Loki__Odinson_

    @_Loki__Odinson_

    3 ай бұрын

    @Naej7 I don't think so, many people choose Python for its simplicity, with the absence of type annotations being one of the key factors. Removing this feature might deter beginners from trying it out. However, as you become more proficient in programming, you may choose to utilize type annotations or when exploring other languages.

  • @Naej7

    @Naej7

    3 ай бұрын

    @@_Loki__Odinson_ Type Annotations help a lot, and if adding 5 characters (: int) is too hard at the beginning, then one should give up on programming lmao

  • @edwardcullen1739

    @edwardcullen1739

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@Naej7 Except people don't understand how to use them, so you end up with unnecessarily hard to use APIs. If that's how you feel, why not just use C? 🤦‍♂️

  • @andymitchell2146
    @andymitchell21462 ай бұрын

    I've been using python for about 10 years, and f strings extensively, but never knew that last tip! Game changer!

  • @yash1152

    @yash1152

    2 ай бұрын

    well, thats cause its only a very recent one (afaik)

  • @eyehear10

    @eyehear10

    Ай бұрын

    @@yash1152it was introduced in 3.8, so a while back

  • @Zenivo
    @Zenivo2 ай бұрын

    About the fourth trick: the f in ".2f" tells it to format as float. You can also do for example ".2e"" which will format the number in scientific format.

  • @utarasama
    @utarasama3 ай бұрын

    The last one is super duper cool!

  • @dcx45

    @dcx45

    2 ай бұрын

    RIP the maintainer

  • @utarasama

    @utarasama

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@dcx45 he should then watch this video

  • @krzysiekkrzysiek9059
    @krzysiekkrzysiek90593 ай бұрын

    This kind of tips are awesone. We need more 👍

  • @TheMcSebi
    @TheMcSebi3 ай бұрын

    Great video! Didn't know about the datetime and debug print ones. Definitely going to use them in the future, though.

  • @bashar9200
    @bashar92002 ай бұрын

    This is amazing!! thank you for this tutorial!!

  • @jaa928
    @jaa9282 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the instructive tips!

  • @timegor844
    @timegor8443 ай бұрын

    Wow, so many simple things I didn't about... Thank you

  • @SergioYT2052
    @SergioYT20522 ай бұрын

    "Simple y bello como un anillo", como diría Neruda; pero además, muy funcional. ¡Muchas gracias!

  • @TheJaguar1983
    @TheJaguar19833 ай бұрын

    Didn't know about the date/time and equals formatting. Looks like the first one forwards to strftime. Makes things so much more concise and readable.

  • @flashtrack101
    @flashtrack1012 ай бұрын

    Love your vids man! would love to see a tutorial on cython from you!

  • @richsadowsky8580
    @richsadowsky85802 ай бұрын

    Absolutely fantastic and useful video!

  • @dipeshsamrawat7957
    @dipeshsamrawat79573 ай бұрын

    Nice collection! 💯

  • @mjhaynavarro
    @mjhaynavarroАй бұрын

    So cool.. thanks for sharing it. very informative

  • @TheKahunas2722000
    @TheKahunas27220002 ай бұрын

    Love the video I knew some of those but the last one is epic I will be using that from now on .

  • @rolandsz8831
    @rolandsz88312 ай бұрын

    Great video! I missed the bonus tip where you explain that format string calls __format__ on the object being formatted, so you can do your own formatting, like this: class MyData: def __init__(self, a: int, b: int, c: int): self.a = a self.b = b self.c = c def __format__(self, spec): if spec[0] not in self.__dict__: sep = spec[0] l = list(spec[1:]) else: sep = ',' l = list(spec) return sep.join(str(self.__dict__[key]) for key in l) my_var = MyData(a=1, b=2, c=3) assert f"{my_var:cba}" == "3,2,1" assert f"{my_var:-abc}" == "1-2-3"

  • @kychemclass5850
    @kychemclass58502 ай бұрын

    Love #5. Thank you.

  • @viniciomonge3960
    @viniciomonge3960Ай бұрын

    Loved the last trick!!!

  • @LittleGnawer
    @LittleGnawer2 ай бұрын

    Nice and useful tricks for every day programming. I also prefer specifying types of variables, since it makes code better understandable.

  • @cmcdougle
    @cmcdougle2 ай бұрын

    Thank you, this went STRAIGHT into my current project. Commas in numbers was one of the next things I was going to look up.

  • @MahdiImeni
    @MahdiImeni3 ай бұрын

    Loved it ❤

  • @rahulCoding
    @rahulCoding3 ай бұрын

    Great video.... Thanks a lot😍👍

  • @quekki3666
    @quekki36663 ай бұрын

    i love f strings also this is like the 3rd time i come across the = specifier but i keep forgetting its existence and type in the whole thing

  • @Indently

    @Indently

    3 ай бұрын

    It's a cool trick for sure!

  • @Pawlo370
    @Pawlo3703 ай бұрын

    Finaly! All fstring variations in one film

  • @mattshu
    @mattshu3 ай бұрын

    F strings are soo chef kiss

  • @Angelinajolieshorts
    @Angelinajolieshorts2 ай бұрын

    Great work sir❤

  • @Krullfath
    @Krullfath3 ай бұрын

    This is super cool, I sadly can't think of any usecases in my current project

  • @kinngrimm
    @kinngrimm2 ай бұрын

    thanks for the showcases

  • @BohumirZamecnik
    @BohumirZamecnik26 күн бұрын

    Very nice. Another useful is formatting float as percent: f"{foo:.2%}".

  • @Anzeljaeg
    @Anzeljaeg2 ай бұрын

    This is pure gold 🥇

  • @ChrisHalden007
    @ChrisHalden0072 ай бұрын

    Great video. Thanks

  • @UndyingEDM
    @UndyingEDMАй бұрын

    For those who didn't know, the last one is called self-documenting expression and was released in Python 3.8

  • @Al_Miqdad_
    @Al_Miqdad_3 ай бұрын

    thanks for your time please make videos about data structure

  • @catastrophicblues13
    @catastrophicblues132 ай бұрын

    That last one is sooo useful!

  • @dark-ghost4132
    @dark-ghost41323 ай бұрын

    Thank for nice tricks 😘

  • @SaveCount-bh8tp
    @SaveCount-bh8tp3 ай бұрын

    Thanks very much

  • @karthikkarthik100
    @karthikkarthik1003 ай бұрын

    Last trick was super cool...

  • @griffgruff1
    @griffgruff12 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @mrjamesflores
    @mrjamesflores3 ай бұрын

    The last one was good!

  • @yash1152
    @yash11522 ай бұрын

    i knew last one already, but seeing it again made me realise i should try to do this in java too, would have shortened a whole lot of cruft in one program i made.

  • @Andrey_Fedorov
    @Andrey_Fedorov3 ай бұрын

    Круто! Спасибо!

  • @sidjay7644
    @sidjay76443 ай бұрын

    Very nice Thanks

  • @kinngrimm
    @kinngrimm2 ай бұрын

    Does datetime have a formating depending on nation? Like we would have already through a login or a whois access to a users current or defined whereabouts or nationality and we would want to have their specific way of reading time provided for them.

  • @MechanicusOfficial
    @MechanicusOfficialАй бұрын

    I always use pyformat. Very easy to understand and pretty nice too. Var = 15 print(“this is my var: {}”.format(var))

  • @cheesy_boya
    @cheesy_boya3 ай бұрын

    Yep, I'm saving this video

  • @tolgaflashtr2855

    @tolgaflashtr2855

    3 ай бұрын

    too* 😂😂

  • @adeptusmortem
    @adeptusmortem2 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @oldschoolsoldier1634
    @oldschoolsoldier16343 ай бұрын

    Trick #2 is neat

  • @mad_vegan
    @mad_vegan3 ай бұрын

    To use scientific notation with integers, you can either do int(2e9) or 2*10**9.

  • @aliwalil4160
    @aliwalil41603 ай бұрын

    the last fstring was dope

  • @daveys
    @daveys3 ай бұрын

    I like that print(f’{a + b = }’) one at the end. I can think of a few times when I’d use that.

  • @Indently

    @Indently

    3 ай бұрын

    Earlier I didn't know it worked on whole expressions, I think it's super cool as well!

  • @acherongoon
    @acherongoon3 ай бұрын

    My preference is th .format(...) method fo a couple o reasons. I use Micropython a lot and f""" is not or has not been available, for format supports all the styles I like. i8n the string being formatted is not known at development time. Scope, the names using inside the string can be assigned at use time, i.e. in a function the value may be in a variable gmt_time but the string uses a standard name 'time'.

  • @noir66146
    @noir661462 ай бұрын

    ooh i like these videos logic magic !

  • @Sailesh_Bhoite
    @Sailesh_Bhoite2 ай бұрын

    Nice Tricks!

  • @swolekhine
    @swolekhine3 ай бұрын

    These will be useful to me for sure. Here's a comment for the algorithm gods!

  • @chrisogonas
    @chrisogonas2 ай бұрын

    Awesome! I love the '=' and >

  • @xKiiyoshiix
    @xKiiyoshiix3 ай бұрын

    Hello @Indently, Can you please explain me, why you use ":" after a variable for ex. n:? Regards.

  • @matthewbay1978

    @matthewbay1978

    3 ай бұрын

    It allows him to specify what type of variable it is. "n: int = " tells anyone reading that it's an integer. I'm glad you asked that though, because I'm an amateur and I'm curious, @Indently is that common practice?

  • @fg786
    @fg7863 ай бұрын

    What can you do with print(f'{var: >+{x}}') ? The additional + get's printed in front of var but a - doesn't, you can put a # instead of the + and it's not throwing an error, yet doesn't seem to do anything. Letters and other symbols give an error.

  • @aguy9836
    @aguy98363 ай бұрын

    nice examples

  • @artistpw
    @artistpwАй бұрын

    Very nice.

  • @kinngrimm
    @kinngrimm2 ай бұрын

    9:30 that approach though had the single quotation marks removed, which from a formating pov is cleaner, isn't there a version of the first shorter approach without the quotation marks then printed? (edit: while still being flexible in terms of variable names as mentioned)

  • @gopal.
    @gopal.Ай бұрын

    thanks

  • @GW-nh9qc
    @GW-nh9qcАй бұрын

    Klasse 😃👍

  • @meghanelizondo774
    @meghanelizondo7742 ай бұрын

    I was so stoked when f'{ var = }' was added to Python!! Might be abusing it a bit lol

  • @0MVR_0
    @0MVR_03 ай бұрын

    the thumbnail to this video inspired an idea to use format strings in dictionaries so that a dynamic series of texts can undergo a linear list of mutations. Honestly, I actually need to refine my idea though.

  • @richardnicholas2957
    @richardnicholas29572 ай бұрын

    Gold!

  • @casperghst42
    @casperghst42Ай бұрын

    Intersting, a large part of the world is using . (period) as a 1000 separator and , (comma) as a decimal point.

  • @iscatafan2959
    @iscatafan29593 ай бұрын

    You make the code easier to read, so you better use the functions of the str class! 🐳

  • @ErLakhan
    @ErLakhanАй бұрын

    Superb

  • @ArtyomKatsap
    @ArtyomKatsap2 ай бұрын

    Hi! Thanks! Great video! Worth mentioning that the last one does not work on older versions of python3 (I tried it on 3.7.17 and it gives a syntax error).

  • @UndyingEDM

    @UndyingEDM

    Ай бұрын

    Probably added in a later version. I'd love to know which. Edit: it's called self-documenting expression released in Python 3.8

  • @tudaer
    @tudaer2 ай бұрын

    May I ask which IDE and development env are you using? Looks so great

  • @meowsqueak

    @meowsqueak

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s PyCharm

  • @tudaer

    @tudaer

    2 ай бұрын

    @@meowsqueak thanks!

  • @Little-bird-told-me
    @Little-bird-told-me11 күн бұрын

    Good Job

  • @sayantanguha1934
    @sayantanguha19342 ай бұрын

    The last one blew my mind

  • @Mor3Lif3
    @Mor3Lif3Ай бұрын

    That last one goes wild

  • @shabadooshabadoo4918
    @shabadooshabadoo49183 ай бұрын

    i dont really know anything about programming or python but im curious. when you do "var:" is the colon part of the variable name? or a requirement for specifying a variable name? if its part of its name, is it to differentiate it from something else?

  • @AnonHooman

    @AnonHooman

    3 ай бұрын

    The colon after a variable name is for typing the variable, for example: my_var: str = ‘Hello’ We’re saying that my_var is of type str (string) and has the value ‘Hello’. However, the typing is not necessary and my_var = ‘Hello’ would work just as well. Though, most people would recommend to use type hints

  • @PanduPoluan

    @PanduPoluan

    3 ай бұрын

    @@AnonHooman Well if assigning simple, easy-to-infer data for a variable, I usually do away with type-hinting. Type-hinting is a godsend to mark parameters to a function, preventing hard to trace ValueError or TypeError exceptions later on. I usually don't type hints my variables except when I'm doing unpacking.

  • @-george-1153
    @-george-11532 ай бұрын

    You're cool! 👍

  • @Lord2225
    @Lord22253 ай бұрын

    Fact: You can define custom logic for f'string on your classes and get string after : as argument to __format__

  • @NickCombs
    @NickCombs2 ай бұрын

    This definitely seems more convenient than it is in js.

  • @murphygreen8484
    @murphygreen84843 ай бұрын

    Don't forget in newer python you can add multiple lines of text by stringing together f strings

  • @MkReman
    @MkReman3 ай бұрын

    Which code editor do you use? It appears to be pycharm. But the ui is different from what I have in windows laptop.

  • @meowsqueak

    @meowsqueak

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s the new UI. Perhaps you’re still using the legacy UI?

  • @archiemarqx
    @archiemarqx3 ай бұрын

    3:24 this tip will literally improve my code quality

  • @user-hd3pz2ow1b
    @user-hd3pz2ow1b2 ай бұрын

    rounding in python .. cool

  • @anon_y_mousse
    @anon_y_mousse2 ай бұрын

    I wish more languages would copy this feature, and that Python would allow you to use variables inside the strings to select formatting options. For my own language, I made all strings f-strings and just have a shorthand where "$var" will stringify the value of `var`, and "${ expr }" will stringify the value of any valid expression. I made it so that format specifiers could use a variable instead of a numeric constant in the string. That way you could pad the output to the terminal dependent on the actual terminal attributes without using a loop. I'm hoping that this methodology negates the need for *printf() functions in my language, because separating the variable from any formatting options on it is error prone, and most of the time people just want to print as is.

  • @veeratheking8375
    @veeratheking83753 ай бұрын

    big fan bro from india

  • @Indently

    @Indently

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @midlander8186
    @midlander81863 ай бұрын

    In the first example, int variable n assigned a number in scientific notation returns a float number when printed, but no error occurred. In what sense must n be declared a float therefore?

  • @meowsqueak

    @meowsqueak

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s not a type declaration, it’s a type hint given as an annotation. Annotations in Python have no effect at run time so no error occurs. They are just hints to a static type checker.

  • @isodoubIet

    @isodoubIet

    2 ай бұрын

    Type annotations are just comments, and comments always lie.

  • @brycesakal3717
    @brycesakal37176 күн бұрын

    My professor who I took intro to Python called the “” ‘right justify and left justify’

  • @VypeReaper
    @VypeReaper2 ай бұрын

    Apart from learning about the f condition, I also learned you can declare the data type in python which i have not been doing lol

  • @andrewmalani1882
    @andrewmalani1882Ай бұрын

    what complier/interpreter does he use?

  • @Smart_Coder7
    @Smart_Coder73 ай бұрын

    This Video was sponsored by me. 💀

  • @NC700xLover
    @NC700xLover2 ай бұрын

    Which editor is that? Looks fresh

  • @eduardolima5495
    @eduardolima54953 ай бұрын

    Question. Why do you declare the variable with the type? I'm a beginner and I never saw that, it's a good practice?

  • @alextrebek5237

    @alextrebek5237

    3 ай бұрын

    Type hints or specifying types are good practice, rather than commenting what should be obvious code. It also enables easier linting and test suites. Google "why type hint" ❤

  • @PanduPoluan

    @PanduPoluan

    3 ай бұрын

    It's called type-hinting. In his example, it doesn't serve much. But in a big program, it will cause the IDE to warn you that you plan on using a variable only to store certain type(s) but you accidentally typed code that assign a different type to it. For instance, say you have result: string = "" Then much later on you assign: result = sorted(some_list) print(result) The IDE will warn you that, "hey, you originally said you're only going to store a string here, but let me warn you, you're about to store a list here." Other than that, Python won't actually error out there.

  • @PanduPoluan

    @PanduPoluan

    3 ай бұрын

    Another example purpose: You assign the result of a function that _declares_ it will return a list of floats def some_func() -> list[float]: ... rslt_list = some_func() Then you do this: print(", ".join(rslt_list)) The IDE will warn you that the str.join() function requires a list of str, but you're calling it with a list of floats. In this case, if you don't heed the warning, your program will raise an error at that point (because of .join()'s requirement).

  • @PanduPoluan

    @PanduPoluan

    3 ай бұрын

    Again, in all case, you're only given a hint that _probably_ something is not quite right. It still won't change Python into a statically-typed language. Just another tool to help a Python Programmer prevent errors due to Type Mismatch.

  • @eduardolima5495

    @eduardolima5495

    3 ай бұрын

    @@PanduPoluan bro! Thanks for the answer!! Super detailed!!

  • @rutenowynidoking3593
    @rutenowynidoking35933 ай бұрын

    For debugging, I recommend the "Icecream" library.

  • @mikaelregetz6224
    @mikaelregetz62242 ай бұрын

    what theme do you use pycharm

  • @pmenown
    @pmenown2 ай бұрын

    What does the f prefix do at the beginning of the argument? Are we inserting a blank float?

  • @mudyeet_

    @mudyeet_

    2 ай бұрын

    Are you talking about the f prefix before the quotes? If yes, then that's "f strings"

  • @pmenown

    @pmenown

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mudyeet_ yeah, like what does an 'f string' even mean? Feel like they missed out on calling it a G string

  • @josefkaras7519
    @josefkaras75193 ай бұрын

    how would you do this? x = 5 printf(f'{var:>x}')

  • @fg786

    @fg786

    3 ай бұрын

    Just put curly braces around x.

  • @rishiraj2548
    @rishiraj25483 ай бұрын

    👍💯

  • @Carberra
    @Carberra2 ай бұрын

    That last tip is the biggest argument against a debugger; if they wanted you to use it, why did they provide that debug syntax? 🤓

  • @bilatungdulang9708
    @bilatungdulang97082 ай бұрын

    Ehem yo bro, are the "int" word after name variable is static type like variable declaring in rust "let num : i32 = 1000000000"?

  • @nadkoch

    @nadkoch

    2 ай бұрын

    No sense, because type sets through assignment. any = 15 If was: any: const = 15 Еlse we have repeat type assignment. any : int = int (15). 🤷‍♂️