I run into this situation:
msg = 'stackoverflow is {subject}'+ ' for me'.format(subject='useful')
msg = 'stackoverflow is {subject}'.format(subject='useful') + ' for me'
First one prints:
stackoverflow is {subject} for me
Second one prints:
stackoverflow is useful for me
Does not concatenating two strings make a new string that should be treated as a normal string for string formatting input?
Yes, but you would need to use parenthesis in the first solution:
msg = ('stackoverflow is {subject}' + ' for me').format(subject='useful')
Otherwise, the .format call will only apply to the ' for me' string, which is effectively a no-op:
>>> ' for me'.format(subject='useful')
' for me'
>>>
With the parenthesis however, the 'stackoverflow is {subject}' and ' for me' string literals will first be combined:
>>> ('stackoverflow is {subject}' + ' for me')
'stackoverflow is {subject} for me'
>>>
and then .format will be called on the resulting string.
Also, just for the record, you do not need to use + in this case since adjacent string literals are automatically concatenated in Python:
>>> 'a''b'
'ab'
>>> 'a' 'b'
'ab'
>>>
In the above example you're calling .format() on the last string, for me and therefore not the formatting doesn't work as you expected it to.
Wrap your string concat in parenthesis and call format on the resulting string and the formatting will work.
