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Custom Class Formatting

Updated at 2018-06-09 14:41

You can add __format__ to improve formatting options of your classes.

from typing import NamedTuple

class Vector(NamedTuple):
    x: int
    y: int

    def __format__(self, spec: str = '') -> str:
        fmt_x = format(self.x, spec)
        fmt_y = format(self.y, spec)
        return f'({fmt_x}, {fmt_y})'

v1 = Vector(1, 2)
assert format(v1)        == '(1, 2)'
assert format(v1, '.2f') == '(1.00, 2.00)'
assert f'{v1:.2f}'       == '(1.00, 2.00)'

Source

  • Python Tricks The Book, Dan Bader
  • Fluent Python, Luciano Ramalho