Alan Gauld wrote:
"Ray Parrish" <c...@cmc.net> wrote
print "A %s with dimensions %sx%s has an area of %s." % (choice,
height, width, width*height)
Isn't it a little more understandable to use a construct like the
following?
print "The area of a " + Choice + "is " str(Width) + " x " +
str(Height) + " equals " + str(Width * Height) + " square feet"
It depends on where you come from.
Those of us brought up on C or COBOL are used to separating the
presentation from the data. Those brought up with PASCAL and BASIC are
used to iterleaving data with presentation.
One thing - you don't need all the str() calls in your example, print
already calls str() for you. Also comma separators are better than +
signs since the plus operation on strings is quite expensive - you
create a new string for each addition.
HTH,
Thanks for the tips. If I understand you correctly I can do the call
this way? -
print "The area of ", Choice, " is ", Width, " x ", Height, "
equals ", (Width * Height), " square feet"
That eliminates the redundancy, and is quite readable to me. I like it. 8-)
Later, Ray Parrish
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