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) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
