The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

If Fortran identical formatting is desired you should look into the excellent fortranformat package by Brendan Arnold which reads or writes directly without translation through Python format strings.

option meaning example < align left, can be combined with width <12 > align right, can be combined with width >15: f: fixed point notation, combined with precision ...

f-Strings, introduced in Python 3.6, provide a more readable and flexible way to format strings, including inline arithmetic and formatting. Formatting Specifiers: The specifier %.2f rounds the ...