On 2014-02-19 19:39, Kevin Glover wrote:
These two lines are from a program that carries out a phrase search of
Wikipedia and returns the total number of times that the specific phrase
occurs. It is essential that the search contains an apostrophe:
results = w.search("\"of the cat's\"", type=ALL, start=1, count=1)
print results.total
I want to replace the word "cat" with a variable, e.g.
q = "cat"
so that I can generate the same search format for a list of different words.
How do I format the search string to include the variable, please? I am using
Python 2.7.
Try string concatenation:
results = w.search("\"of the " + q + "'s\"", type=ALL, start=1,
count=1)
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