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Re: What is this syntax ?

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In article <4dfe10d1$0$28053$426a34cc@news.free.fr>,
 candide <candide@free.invalid> wrote:

> OK,  thanks for your explanation, it was just stringisation !
> 
> 
> I erroneously focused on
> 
> +x+
> 
> as a kind of placeholder unknown to me, instead of left and right 
> concatenations ;)
> 
> It would be more readable for me if it were edited
> 
>  >>> print '"' + x + '"' # better spacing
> "foo"
>  >>>
> 
> or with string formatting :
> 
>  >>> x="foo"
>  >>> print '"%s"' %x
> "foo"
>  >>>

This is one of the (very) few places PHP wins over Python.  In PHP, I 
would write this as

print "'$x'"

which seems easier to read than any of the Python versions.  Of course, 
sharp-eyed readers will notice that I inverted the single and double 
quotes because

print '"$x"'

doesn't work.  If you really wanted to replicate the output exactly, you 
would have to do

print "\"$x\""

by which time you'd probably run back to writing it in Python :-)

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What is this syntax ? candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-06-19 15:41 +0200
  Re: What is this syntax ? Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 15:50 +0200
  Re: What is this syntax ? Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 14:58 +0100
  Re: What is this syntax ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 00:03 +1000
  Re: What is this syntax ? candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-06-19 17:08 +0200
    Re: What is this syntax ? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-06-19 11:39 -0400
      Re: What is this syntax ? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 09:58 -0700
        Re: What is this syntax ? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-06-19 16:20 -0400
          Re: What is this syntax ? Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kraken@libero.it> - 2011-06-19 23:06 +0200
            Re: What is this syntax ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-19 23:19 +0000
              Re: What is this syntax ? Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kraken@libero.it> - 2011-06-20 07:42 +0200
          Re: What is this syntax ? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-06-19 15:29 -0700

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