Why do this?

[Matthew Warren]

Ok, not really python focused, but it feels like the people here could
explain it for me :)

Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic.

I never took any formal classes however, and I have never become an
expert programmer. I'm an average/hobbyist programmer with quite a few
languages under my belt but I cant do any really fancy tricks with any
of them. (although Python might be nudging me into more advanced things,
now I'm starting to get what all the __method__ thingies and operators
are all about)

I learned over the years to do things like the following, and I like
doing it like this because of readability, something Python seems to
focus on :-

Print "There are "+number+" ways to skin a "+furryanimal

But nowadays, I see things like this all over the place;

print("There are %s ways to skin a %s" % (number, furryanimal))

Now I understand there can be additional formatting benefits when
dealing with numbers, decimal places etc.. But to me, for strings, the
second case is much harder to read than the first.

I hope I'm not being dense.

The result is that I have pathalogically avoided print "%s" % (thing)
because it seems to just over complicate things.


Ta, :)

Matt.





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