<c.d.smith9@gmail.com> wrote:
> return u'%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)
>
>what does the u'%s %s' % mean... I cannot find any exaplanation of
>this in the docs?
>
As mentioned, this is standard Python (pre 3.x) string interpolation
(formatting).
u"any string"
defines "any string" to be unicode rather than 7-bit ASCII; in Python
3.x, all strings are unicode and one needs to specify if plain bytes are
needed.
"some string with %placeholders" % (some, tuple, of, values)
replaces the placeholders with a textual representation of the values
provided. The %s placeholder is most common as it handles any object
that has a method to produce a string representation ( __str__(self) )
-- which is pretty much anything. One can use others -- similar to the C
runtime library printf() format strings.
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