Re: What is this syntax ?

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From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Subject	Re: What is this syntax ?
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<e724fc3e-8198-4fb7-b1d3-96834f3fa6bb@34g2000pru.googlegroups.com>,
 rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 19, 8:39 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is one of the (very) few places PHP wins over Python.  In PHP, I
> > would write this as
> >
> > print "'$x'"
> 
> 
> You dont find
> 
> >>> print '"%s"' % x
> 
> readable? Why?

I didn't say it wasn't readable, I said other things were easier to 
read.  There's something nice about building up strings in-line, as 
opposed to having to look somewhere to see what's being interpolated.  
To give a more complex example, consider:

print "$scheme://$host:$port/$route#$fragment"

That certainly seems easier to me to read than:

print "%s://%s:%s/%s#%s" % (scheme,
                            port,
                            host,
                            route,
                            fragment)

because I don't have to line up the nth format specifier with the nth 
data item.

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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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