Jeff, I get the impression that many pythonistas don't like string interpolation. I've never seen a clear definition of why. Anyway, it's easy enough to add with the Itpl [1] module:
>>> import Itpl, sys >>> sys.stdout = Itpl.filter() >>> s, n, r = 0, 0, 0 >>> print "$s $n $r" 0 0 0 >>> x = Itpl.itpl("$s $n $r") >>> x '0 0 0' And, of course, you can give Itpl.itpl a nicer name; I usually call it pp(). If you don't need to change the behavior of the "print" statement, then you don't need the Itpl.filter() line. [1] http://lfw.org/python/Itpl.py Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:51 -0500, Smith, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all those who talked about hating the symbology in Perl and the > suggestion that it should be removed from a later version. I just > remembered what you get for that symbology that I really do like about > Perl: variable interpolation in strings: > > C: > sprintf(newstr,"%s %d %f",s,n,r); > > Becomes a little nicer in Python with: > newstr = '%s %d %f' % (s,n,r) > > Although it's worse with: > newstr = s + ' ' + str(n) + ' ' + str(r) > > But in my mind nothing beats the Perl statement: > newstr = "$s $n $r"; > > for clarity, ease of use, and maintainability. > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor