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Quotes and variables in print statement - Mark17 - Sep-06-2019
This is a basic issue that has given me fits and I think Atom has been making it more complicated by wanting to place additional [single] quotation marks when I type one.
I want the output to be:
"<searchfor>" is not in the file.
searchfor is a string entered by the user.
If I do
print(searchfor,'is not in the file.')then I don't get quotes around searchfor.
If I do
print('''searchfor,'' is in the file.') then I get "SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal"
Also, I think input and print are different with regard to how many arguments they'll take and that makes it more difficult when trying to intersperse variables with boilerplate text.
When should I use regular quotation marks rather than a single (apostrophe) and how do I use them for formatting things like this?
RE: Quotes and variables in print statement - ThomasL - Sep-06-2019
One way would be
print('"' + searchfor + '" is in the file.')but the more pythonic way is using python >= 3.6 and f-stringsprint(f'"{searchfor}" is in the file.')
RE: Quotes and variables in print statement - Mark17 - Sep-13-2019
On a related note, I just found out I could do this:
print('words is a',type(words),'and it is:', end=' ')To get:words is a <class 'list'> and it is: ['but', 'so', 'expensive']
How exactly does the end= ' ' command or syntax work?
RE: Quotes and variables in print statement - ichabod801 - Sep-13-2019
The end parameter defaults to '\n', a new line. So print normally adds a new line to the end of the output. Setting it to ' ' instead adds a space to the end of the output.
RE: Quotes and variables in print statement - Mark17 - Sep-13-2019
Thanks!