Chris Lasher wrote:
> I'm working my way through _Learning_Python_ 2nd ed., and I saw
> something peculiar which is not explained anywhere in the text.
>
> print " " + file + " size=" + `size`
>
> The `s appear to somehow automagically convert the integer to a string
> for concatenation. How does this work? Is this just a shortcut for
> str(size)? Is it considered bad practice to use `s?
In addition to the fact that `` is repr() and generally shouldn't be
used, the above is much better written using string formatting:
print ' %s size=%u' % (file, size)
Shorter, cleaner, and more explicit.
Tim Delaney
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