[Tutor] String Replacement Question

[Moishy Gluck]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Moishy Gluck <moishyyehuda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >>> "%s " %st*3
> 'String String String '
>                             ^
> If you look closely at the end of the string there is an extra space.
>
> >>> " ".join((st, )*3)
> 'String String String'
>                            ^
> No extra space.
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Kinuthia Muchane <muchanek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  st = "String"
>>>>> print "%s " %st*3
>>>>>
>>>> String String String
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> Kinuthia...
>>
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>>
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>> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:21 +0530
>> From: Faheem <faheem at atlantiscomputing.com>
>> Subject: [Tutor] String Replacement question
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>> Hi all,
>>  How do I replace the same value multiple times without repeating the
>> same variable name/value repeatedly?
>> for ex.
>>
>>  some = 'thing'
>>  print '%s %s %s %s' % (some,some,some,some)
>>
>> in this case, my question is how do i replace "% (some,some,some)" with
>> something more concise?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> Faheem
>>
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