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]

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

[@m-zurowski]

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]

ok, my idea didn't work as expected 😅

[@sunwukong6268]

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

[@GentleMannOfHats]

I wish I had known sooner!!

[@rickymort135]

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

[@andymitchell2146]

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

[@yash1152]

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

[@eyehear10]

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

[@_Loki__Odinson_]

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

[@Indently]

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

[@Naej7]

Not using type annotations should be banned by law

[@_Loki__Odinson_]

@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]

@@_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]

​@@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? 🤦‍♂️

[@Zenivo]

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]

The last one is super duper cool!

[@dcx45]

RIP the maintainer

[@utarasama]

​@@dcx45 he should then watch this video

[@krzysiekkrzysiek9059]

This kind of tips are awesone. We need more 👍

[@TheMcSebi]

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

[@bashar9200]

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

[@flashtrack101]

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

[@SergioYT2052]

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

[@jaa928]

Thank you for the instructive tips!

[@timegor844]

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

[@TheJaguar1983]

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.

[@dipeshsamrawat7957]

Nice collection! 💯

[@richsadowsky8580]

Absolutely fantastic and useful video!

[@quekki3666]

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]

It's a cool trick for sure!

[@TheKahunas2722000]

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

[@rolandsz8831]

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"

[@LittleGnawer]

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

[@mattshu]

F strings are soo chef kiss

[@kychemclass5850]

Love #5. Thank you.

[@mjhaynavarro]

So cool.. thanks for sharing it. very informative

[@Pawlo370]

Finaly! All fstring variations in one film

[@MahdiImeni]

Loved it ❤

[@viniciomonge3960]

Loved the last trick!!!

[@rahulCoding]

Great video.... Thanks a lot😍👍

[@UndyingEDM]

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

[@Krullfath]

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

[@Angelinajolieshorts]

Great work sir❤

[@Anzeljaeg]

This is pure gold 🥇

[@kinngrimm]

thanks for the showcases

[@catastrophicblues13]

That last one is sooo useful!

[@Al_Miqdad_]

thanks for your time please make videos about data structure

[@dark-ghost4132]

Thank for nice tricks 😘

[@karthikkarthik100]

Last trick was super cool...

[@ChrisHalden007]

Great video. Thanks

[@mrjamesflores]

The last one was good!

[@cmcdougle]

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

[@daveys]

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

[@Indently]

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

[@griffgruff1]

Great video!

[@SaveCount-bh8tp]

Thanks very much

[@semenivanoff8615]

Useful. Thanks

[@yash1152]

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.

[@cheesy_boya]

Yep, I'm saving this video

[@tolgaflashtr2855]

too* 😂😂

[@BohumirZamecnik]

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

[@sidjay7644]

Very nice Thanks

[@kinngrimm]

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]

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

[@aliwalil4160]

the last fstring was dope

[@mad_vegan]

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

[@Andrey_Fedorov]

Круто! Спасибо!

[@oldschoolsoldier1634]

Trick #2 is neat

[@Sailesh_Bhoite]

Nice Tricks!

[@xKiiyoshiix]

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

[@matthewbay1978]

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?

[@swolekhine]

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

[@0MVR_0]

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.

[@adeptusmortem]

Thank you

[@aguy9836]

nice examples

[@artistpw]

Very nice.

[@meghanelizondo774]

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

[@casperghst42]

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

[@sayantanguha1934]

The last one blew my mind

[@chrisogonas]

Awesome! I love the '=' and >

[@iscatafan2959]

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

[@ArtyomKatsap]

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]

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

[@NickCombs]

This definitely seems more convenient than it is in js.

[@fg786]

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.

[@kinngrimm]

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)

[@MkReman]

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

[@meowsqueak]

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

[@Mor3Lif3]

That last one goes wild

[@noir66146]

ooh i like these videos logic magic !

[@IuseArchbtw-di6cd]

Hey bro, can you make an easy to digest about python Decorator I've been stuck in this topic for about 2weeks, all the video that i've watched are still hard to digest for my brain I would be glad since you've shown me this cool F-string trick that i never knew existed Thank's in advance

[@PanduPoluan]

A decorator is a syntactic sugar for setting a variable of the same name to the result of applying a fucntion to a function. @decorator1 def func(): ... Is the same as: def func(): ... func = decorator1(func) The key here is that decorator1 _must_ return something that is (1) callable, and (2) has the same arguments as the function it wraps around.

[@Indently]

I have videos about it on my channel, just search "decorators indently"

[@Lord2225]

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

[@acherongoon]

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'.

[@tudaer]

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

[@meowsqueak]

It’s PyCharm

[@tudaer]

@@meowsqueak thanks!

[@murphygreen8484]

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

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@ErLakhan]

Superb

[@gopal.]

thanks

[@anon_y_mousse]

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.

[@Smart_Coder7]

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[@archiemarqx]

3:24 this tip will literally improve my code quality

[@richardnicholas2957]

Gold!

[@VypeReaper]

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

[@Carberra]

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

[@veeratheking8375]

big fan bro from india

[@Indently]

Thanks!

[@GW-nh9qc]

Klasse 😃👍

[@midlander8186]

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]

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]

Type annotations are just comments, and comments always lie.

[@-george-1153]

You're cool! 👍

[@rutenowynidoking3593]

For debugging, I recommend the "Icecream" library.

[@NC700xLover]

Which editor is that? Looks fresh

[@user-hd3pz2ow1b]

rounding in python .. cool

[@eduardolima5495]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@kamurashev]

Yep, f string is a great feature. At least something Python gives us 😅

[@pmenown]

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

[@mudyeet_]

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

[@pmenown]

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

[@andrewmalani1882]

what complier/interpreter does he use?

[@mikaelregetz6224]

what theme do you use pycharm

[@bilatungdulang9708]

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

[@nadkoch]

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

[@Alchemist10241]

1e9 was the most useful to me