From: Georg Brandl Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 09:56:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: #11405: do not reference the string module again for its deprecated functions, only... X-Git-Tag: v3.2.1b1~342^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3640e18d90098a37d8cb841ec145a9c9e0d54f5b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #11405: do not reference the string module again for its deprecated functions, only for Template class. --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 84e83b5d7dd1..c570e27002b6 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -19,18 +19,16 @@ the :func:`print` function. (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 type has 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 Template which offers yet another way -to substitute values into strings. +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`