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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 0e04962a3d..ca908a3d32 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -19,16 +19,17 @@ the :keyword:`print` statement. (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``. See the Library Reference for more information on this.) -.. index:: module: string - Often you'll want more control over the formatting of your output than simply printing space-separated values. There are two ways to format your output; the first way is to do all the string handling yourself; using string slicing and concatenation operations you can create any layout you can imagine. The -standard module :mod:`string` contains some useful operations for padding +string types have some methods that perform useful operations for padding strings to a given column width; these will be discussed shortly. The second way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method. +The :mod:`string` module contains a :class:`~string.Template` class which offers +yet another way to substitute values into strings. + One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily, Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr` or :func:`str` functions. |