Unpythonic way of printing variables in Python?

Question

Someone has recently demonstrated to me that we can print variables in Python like how Perl does.

Instead of:

print(\"%s, %s, %s\" % (foo, bar, baz))         


        

Answer 1

I prefer the .format() method myself, but you can always do:

age = 99
name = "bobby"
print name, "is", age, "years old"

Produces: bobby is 99 years old. Notice the implicit spaces.

Or, you can get real nasty:

def p(*args):
    print "".join(str(x) for x in args))

p(name, " is ", age, " years old")