Duncan Booth wrote:
> print "There are"+number+"ways to skin a"+furryanimal
>> or at least something equivalent to it. If I try to make the same mistake
> with a format string it jumps out to me as wrong:
>> "There are%sways to skin a%s" % (number, furryanimal)
Related to this, formatting with sequences is also much more readable
when there are complex interpunction and quoting characters present,
like this:
print "'"+var1+"','"+var2'"+","+var3
the above is much more readable as
print "'%s', '%s', %s" % (var1, var2, var3)