string bug/oddity?

[Peter Hansen]

Oktay Safak wrote:
> 
> First I constructed a dictionary a. Here it is:
> 
> {'yas': 23, 'ad': 'veli', 'soyad': 'guzel'}
> >>> for x in a.keys():
>         if type(a[x])!="string": print x+repr(a[x])
>         else: print x+a[x]
> 
> 
> yas23
> ad'veli'
> soyad'guzel'
> 
> I just want to concatenate the two strings without the
> quotes as in the last line. 

Anything wrong with this, simpler, approach?

>>> for x in a.keys():
...     print '%s%s' % (x, a[x])

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