Is this what you’re talking about? minutes = “3” seconds = “11”
print int(minutes), ”:" int(seconds) That’s what you mean by turning a string into an int right? Not sure how to add strings together though. On Feb 6, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Scott W Dunning <swdunn...@cox.net> wrote: >> Assume variables exist for minutes and seconds. Each variable is an integer. >> How would you create a string in the format, >> >> 3:11 >> >> with no spaces. where 3 is minutes and 11 is seconds. >> >> >> Obviously when I… >> >> print minutes, “:”, seconds >> >> I get 3 : 11 >> >> how can I get it to print with no spaces? >> >> 3:11 > > The print statement isn't right for what you're doing here. You need > to create a single string with that result, which you could then print > out. > > There are two easy ways to do this. First one is to create a string > from the number of minutes, create a string from the number of > seconds, and concatenate them, with a third string (the colon) in > between. Do you know how to turn an integer into a string, and do you > know how to add strings together? > > The second way is to format the values directly into a single string. > You can use printf codes for this. Check this out: > > http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
