On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:58:38 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Maybe. But it (percent-notation) is expressive and insanely powerful. > Moreover, it obeys the rule that you pay for the complexity you use, no > more and no less. (Although I think there's one lack in Python's > implementation - I can't find a way to use an argument more than once, > without switching to "dictionary mode" and using keys for everything. I > can't, for instance, use "Hello hello, %s %[0]s!"%name to use the name > twice. But since that isn't in the original C implementation, it's > hardly mandatory.)
Ack. In this case, you can use format: >>> "Hello {0}, what's up with {1}? Hey, {0} I'm speaking to you!".format ('George', 'Melissa') "Hello George, what's up with Melissa? Hey, George I'm speaking to you!" -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list