in reply to The Law of Inconsistent Assumptions

Just a note - I prefer the sprintf-style notation of string interpolation in Python, but there are also other, less cumbersome ways:

print "Hello",foo,"." # not quite the same output but close enough

print "Hello %s." % (foo) # printf-style interpolation

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Manually concatenating strings is soo low-level :-)

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Re^2: The Law of Inconsistent Assumptions
by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Oct 20, 2004 at 20:02 UTC
    Obligatory Ruby example: 

    puts "This post was brought to you by the number #{ x + 75 / y} and th
+e letter #{q}";

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    Arbitrary code execution, variables, anything.

    If you want printf, Perl has a nicer printf than the example Python syntax. Why? It looks like printf and is therefore nice and short :)

    Regardless, a language is not about keystrokes, it's about style. Python is too wordy for me, and not automagical enough.

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