Print F-strings

Wait, what was that?

name = "Quincy"
age = 32
height = 1.97

print(f"Hello. My name is {name}, I am {age} years old, and I am {height} tall")

What is that long, script-like print()? Well, first of all, let’s ask ourselves how we could display the values for name, age, and height inside a text

We could do it like this

name = "Quincy"
age = 32
height = 1.90

print("Hello. My name is ", name, ", I am ", age, " years old, and I am ", height, " tall")

The problem is that with this approach you have to be careful with spaces, commas, and quotes… fun fact: I messed up twice when I wrote this XD

We believe the best approach is the first one

name = "Cortez"
age = 57
height = 1.67
print(f"Hello. My name is {name}, I am {age} years old, and I am {height} tall")

Obviously, name, age, and height are the variables. The {} symbols work as a placeholder. Inside them, if you put a variable, the variable’s name will be replaced by its value. However, we must not forget the f

name = "Quincy"
age = 32
height = 1.90

print("Hello. My name is {name}, I am {age} years old, and I am {height} tall")

Now we didn’t put that f. What will be displayed? Correct, exactly the string

Hello. My name is {name}, I am {age} years old, and I am {height} tall

And that’s because the f before the string tells Python, “hey, replace what’s inside {} with the respective values” This process in programming is called formatting (hence the letter f)

Mission: Flight Report

A pilot is about to launch. The details are stored in pilot, ship_name, fuel, and speed.

Using f-strings, print a three-line flight report:

the pilot's name and the ship, like Pilot Shadow is flying Orion
the fuel, like Fuel: 400 units
the speed, like Speed: 7.5 km/s

Input (already set at the top of your code, change the values to test):

pilot, ship_name: text
fuel: a whole number
speed: a number with decimals

Example

With the starter values, your program should print

Pilot Shadow is flying Orion
Fuel: 400 units
Speed: 7.5 km/s