Print and join statement in python

Question

I am newbie to python. I have a sequence and I am able to print it using join method and able to print the length of the sequence separately. I am not able to print

Answer 1

Yes I second @jonrsharpe str is buit-in and use should not use that name.

print " The join o/p is %s and The length is %s"%(s.join(seq),len(s.join(seq)))

Here your length is not 3 it will be 5. Since you have added 2 '-'. If you want to count excluding '-' then use line below.

print " The join o/p is %s and The length is %s"%(s.join(seq),len(s.join(seq).replace('-','')))