On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:34 +1000, James Mills wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Rance Hall <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > pseudo code: > > > > > > message = "Bah." > > > > if test: > > message = message + " Humbug!" > > > > print(message) > > > > end pseudo code > > Normally it's considered bad practise to concatenate strings. > Use a a format specifier like this: > > > message = "Bah." > > > > if test: > > message = "%s %s" (message, " Humbug!") > > > > print(message) > > Python3 (afaik) also introduced the .format(...) method on strings. > > cheers > James > > -- > -- James Mills > -- > -- "Problems are solved by method"
How is concatenating strings bad practice? I use code such as: string = 'hello' string += ' children.' a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
