Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border02.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp002.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F09-18.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 13:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87y4lbchfm.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rxRTB8luqH+QNMiJ1XO5SWPSkss= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430306930 news.kpn.nl 18083 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:42316 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89540 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