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Unpythonic way of printing variables in Python?
In PHP one can write:
$fruit = 'Pear';
print("Hey, $fruit!");
But in Python it's:
fruit = 'Pear'
print("Hey, {0}!".format(fruit))
Is there a way for me to interpolate variables in strings instead? And if not, how is this more pythonic?
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The closest you can get to the PHP behaviour is and still maintaining your Python-zen is:
print "Hey", fruit, "!"
print will insert spaces at every comma.
The more common Python idiom is:
print "Hey %s!" % fruit
If you have tons of arguments and want to name them, you can use a dict:
print "Hey %(crowd)s! Would you like some %(fruit)s?" % { 'crowd': 'World', 'fruit': 'Pear' }
The way you're doing it now is a pythonic way to do it. You can also use the locals dictionary. Like so:
>>> fruit = 'Pear'
>>> print("Hey, {fruit}".format(**locals()))
Hey, Pear
Now that doesn't look very pythonic, but it's the only way to achieve the same affect you have in your PHP formatting. I'd just stick to the way you're doing it.
locals(), never do this. Pass the actual values you want to put in the string instead.
A slight adaptation from the NamespaceFormatter example in PEP-3101:
import string
class NamespaceFormatter(string.Formatter):
def __init__(self, namespace={}):
super(NamespaceFormatter, self).__init__()
self.namespace = namespace
def get_value(self, key, args, kwds):
if isinstance(key, str):
try:
# Check explicitly passed arguments first
return kwds[key]
except KeyError:
return self.namespace[key]
else:
super(NamespaceFormatter, self).get_value(key, args, kwds)
fmt = NamespaceFormatter(globals())
fruit = 'Pear'
print fmt.format('Hey, {fruit}!')
for:
Hey, Pear!
Something like this should work:
"%(fruit)s" % locals()
Don't do it. It is unpythonic. As example, when you add translations to your app, you can't longer control which variables are used unless you check all the translations files yourself.
As example, if you change a local variable, you'll have to change it in all translated strings too.
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