using generators with format strings

[marduk]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:38:55 -0400, brianc wrote:

> List comprehension is a beautiful thing.
> 
> x = "Hello, %s, this is a %s with %s and %s on top of %s" %
> tuple([myvalues() for i in xrange(5)])
> 
> You could even make the xrange argument dependent upon the
> number of "%s" in the string. 

Well, that has two problems:

a) the tuple is a list of generators of strings, not strings
b) I was hoping I would not have to count all the "%s"s in the string




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