[Tutor] working with strings in python3

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Your code worked fine for me. Is it possible your "test" variable wasn't  
true?

>>> message = "Bah."

>>> message = message + " Humbug!"
>>> print(message)
Bah. Humbug!





On Apr 18, 2011 8:17pm, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok so I know what I am doing is deprecated (or at least poor form) but

> the replacement must be awkward cause I'm not getting it.





> so this is in a cli based program designed to print status messages to

> the terminal on a linux box.



> pseudo code:





> message = "Bah."



> if test:

> message = message + " Humbug!"



> print(message)



> end pseudo code





> I'm sure this is not the way we are supposed to augment strings like this.



> maybe there is string.append() method or something I should be using  
> instead?



> In my case the optional extra parts are always at the end of the

> current value of the string.





> Thanks for clearing this up for me.



> Rance

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