You can use the built-in string formatting options and operations. 2.5: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/typesseq-strings.html 2.6: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html
In essence, you can do: print "You still have $%i remaining" %(money) On Jan 2, 2:15 pm, sprad <jsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done a good bit of Perl, but I'm new to Python. > > I find myself doing a lot of typecasting (or whatever this thing I'm > about to show you is called), and I'm wondering if it's normal, or if > I'm missing an important idiom. > > For example: > > bet = raw_input("Enter your bet") > if int(bet) == 0: > # respond to a zero bet > > Or later, I'll have an integer, and I end up doing something like > this: > > print "You still have $" + str(money) + " remaining" > > All the time, I'm going int(this) and str(that). Am I supposed to? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list