[Tutor] Re: os module continued

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Dwain Hargrave wrote:

> >         s = "Added /fake/structure/log" + x
> 
> Didn't work... why?  Because it seemed to be treating x as a number

Ah, right, str(x)

(yesterday was a very long day on very little sleep)

>     s = "/fake/structure/log%d" % (x)  <-- this line solved my problem

Yes, you can also use %s (for numbers, there's no distinction and it
doesn't seem to be a performance hit)

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