| published by | James Bennett |
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| in blog | James Bennett |
| original entry | Having some fun with Python |
The other day on a Slack I hang out in, someone posted an amusing line of Python code:
port = "{port}:{port}".format(port=port)
If it’s not clear after the inevitable Swedish-chef-muppet impression has run through your mind, this string-formatting operation will replace the contents of port with a string containing two copies of whatever was in port, separated by a colon. So if port was "foo", now it will …