On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Faheem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > How do I replace the same value multiple times without repeating the > same variable name/value repeatedly? > for ex. > > some = 'thing' > print '%s %s %s %s' % (some,some,some,some)
You can use named parameters, which moves the repetition to the format string: In [24]: print '%(some)s %(some)s %(some)s %(some)s' % (dict(some=some)) thing thing thing thing With multiple values, a common trick is to pass vars() or locals() as the dict, giving the format access to all defined variables: In [27]: a=1 In [28]: b=2 In [29]: print '%(a)s %(b)s' % vars() 1 2 If you literally need to repeat as in your example, you could do this: In [26]: print '%s %s %s %s' % (4*(some,)) thing thing thing thing Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
