Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!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-F10-11.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Using + with strings considered bad Organization: Decebal Computing References: <878udbxrpg.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> 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 14:23:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87egn3ced3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k6fSFEBK++JmoyjWjgavcvL5x+Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430311489 news.kpn.nl 20626 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:42687 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89547 Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 11:24 CEST schreef Peter Otten: >> print('Calculating fibonacci and fibonacci_memoize once for ' + >> str(large_fibonacci) + ' to determine speed increase') > > You could write that as > > print('Calculating fibonacci and fibonacci_memoize once for ' > '{} to determine speed increase'.format(large_fibonacci)) > > but in a simple case like yours I'd go with the obvious > > print( > 'Calculating fibonacci and fibonacci_memoize once for', > large_fibonacci, > 'to determine speed increase') In 2.7 that gives: ('Calculating fibonacci and fibonacci_memoize once for', 40, 'to determine speed increase') So I am going to use the one above it. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof