On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Scott W Dunning <swdunn...@cox.net> wrote: > Assume variables exist for minutes and seconds. Each variable is an integer. > How would you create a string in the format, > > 3:11 > > with no spaces. where 3 is minutes and 11 is seconds. > > > Obviously when I… > > print minutes, “:”, seconds > > I get 3 : 11 > > how can I get it to print with no spaces? > > 3:11
The print statement isn't right for what you're doing here. You need to create a single string with that result, which you could then print out. There are two easy ways to do this. First one is to create a string from the number of minutes, create a string from the number of seconds, and concatenate them, with a third string (the colon) in between. Do you know how to turn an integer into a string, and do you know how to add strings together? The second way is to format the values directly into a single string. You can use printf codes for this. Check this out: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
