[Tutor] newbie question

[Luke Paireepinart]

Trilok Khairnar wrote:
>> With this, and if you want to use your formatted print statements instead
>>     
> of the join, you could use something like
>   
>> print "Specials: %s %s %s" % tuple(menu_specials.values()) which turns the
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> output of menu_specials.values() (a list) into a tuple.
>   
>> Disadvantage is that you'll need to know the number of values in advance,
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> for the number of '%s' in your format string (alternatively,
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>> you could build up the format string in a loop first). Note that values()
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> bypasses the above list comprehensions entirely.
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> With the following, you can do fine without knowing the length in advance.
>
> tpl = tuple(menu_specials.values())
> Print "Specials: " + ' '.join(["%s"*len(tpl)]) % tpl
>   
I don't see the point of building a format string and then substituting 
for it.
Why not just do:
print "Specials: " + ' '.join(menu_specials.values())

-Luke