Re: [Tutor] working with strings in python3

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From	James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date	2011-04-19 10:34 +1000
Subject	Re: [Tutor] working with strings in python3
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Rance Hall <ranceh@gmail.com> wrote:
> pseudo code:
>
>
> message = "Bah."
>
> if test:
>   message = message + " Humbug!"
>
> print(message)
>
> end pseudo code

Normally it's considered bad practise to concatenate strings.
Use a a format specifier like this:

> message = "Bah."
>
> if test:
>   message = "%s %s" (message, " Humbug!")
>
> print(message)

Python3 (afaik) also introduced the .format(...) method on strings.

cheers
James

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Re: [Tutor] working with strings in python3 James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-04-19 10:34 +1000
  Re: [Tutor] working with strings in python3 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-19 02:16 +0000
    Re: [Tutor] working with strings in python3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 13:22 +1000
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