Why do this?

[Matthew Warren]

 > Duncan Booth wrote:
> 
> > print "There are"+number+"ways to skin a"+furryanimal
> > 
> > or at least something equivalent to it. If I try to make 
> the same mistake 
> > with a format string it jumps out to me as wrong:
> > 
> > "There are%sways to skin a%s" % (number, furryanimal)
> 
> Related to this, formatting with sequences is also much more readable 
> when there are complex interpunction and quoting characters present, 
> like this:
> 
> print "'"+var1+"','"+var2'"+","+var3
> 
> the above is much more readable as
> 
> print "'%s', '%s', %s" % (var1, var2, var3)

Hmm, with my hastily written contrived example, I had forgotten about
sequences like that.

Oddly, in the case above I prefer reading the bottom example,

And shouldn't that top one be

print "'"+var1+"','"+var2+"',"+var3

;)

So to conclude, in future I will read it, and see how readable it is
before I decide. But now at least I do see a reason not to
pathalogically avoid such string formatting :)

Matt.


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