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Re: Using + with strings considered bad

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Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 11:24 CEST schreef Peter Otten:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> 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? 

[...]

>> 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')

I have gone for this option. Thanks.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Using + with strings considered bad Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 10:29 +0200
  Re: Using + with strings considered bad Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-04-29 10:08 +0100
  Re: Using + with strings considered bad Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-29 11:24 +0200
    Re: Using + with strings considered bad Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 13:17 +0200
    Re: Using + with strings considered bad Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 14:23 +0200
      Re: Using + with strings considered bad Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 22:55 +1000
  Re: Using + with strings considered bad Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-29 23:15 +1000
    Re: Using + with strings considered bad wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-04-29 08:16 -0700
  Re: Using + with strings considered bad Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2015-04-29 06:40 -0500

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