On 18-Apr-11 17:17, Rance Hall wrote:
if test:
message = message + " Humbug!"
I'm sure this is not the way we are supposed to augment strings like this.
maybe there is string.append() method or something I should be using instead?
Nope, strings are immutable so once they are instantiated they cannot be
changed (or lots of things like dictionary keys would break).
So you want to create a new string value by taking the current value of
message, plus a new value, and assigning that back to the name "message"
as a new string object:
message = message + " Humbug!"
Although that can be more conveniently written as
message += " Humbug!"
There are other approaches, like building a list of strings and later
joining them, etc., but that depends on your application as to what
approach makes most sense for you.
message.append() is impossible because that would be altering the string
object named by "message" in-place, which is disallowed for strings.
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