embed data inside string

[Martin v. Loewis]

Julia Bell <juliabell at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> (I don't want to use formatted strings - I'm looking for something to
> simplify the line.)
> 
> In perl I would have used:
> $mystring = "Value of parameter = $parameter is unexpected"
> (inside double quotes, the $parameter variable is evaluated, and it's
> value is embedded in the string)  I'm looking for something similar in
> python where I can refer to the value of the parameter inside a string.

The Python equivalent of this is

mystring = "Value of parameter = %s is unexpected" % parameter

I'm not sure why you would consider this less simple than what you
originally had, or than the Perl version.

Regards,
Martin