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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:34:27 +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 =3D "Bah."
>
> if test:
> =C2=A0 message =3D message + " Humbug!"
>
> print(message)
>
> end pseudo code

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

> message =3D "Bah."
>
> if test:
> =C2=A0 message =3D "%s %s" (message, " Humbug!")
>
> print(message)

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

cheers
James

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