Special Python String Formatting in Logging and Unit Conversion

Learn special Python string formatting in different cases

Lynn G. Kwong
7 min readDec 31, 2021

In this article, some special cases of string formatting will be discussed. Both the old and new styles of string formatting will be introduced. While f-string formatting is recommended to be used in most cases now, the old percent sign formatting and str.format() still have their advantages in some special cases. After that, the pint library will be introduced which is very convenient to convert values to different units. pint

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Lynn G. Kwong

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