Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!feed.xsnews.nl!border03.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp001.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F09-08.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Using + with strings considered bad Organization: Decebal Computing X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:29:47 +0200 Message-ID: <878udbxrpg.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NAQIQ1/c2UbIuSlH8inVbYfpc9k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430297071 news.kpn.nl 18965 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:34053 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89530 Because I try to keep my lines (well) below 80 characters, I use the following: print('Calculating fibonacci and fibonacci_memoize once for ' + str(large_fibonacci) + ' to determine speed increase') But I was told that using + with strings was bad practice. Is this true? If so, what is the better way to do this? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof