Why do this?

[Matthew Warren]

 > Also, having a variable of type str called 'number' seems 
> perverse (and 
> probably error prone), so I suspect I might need something like:
>

And not something I would normally do, but for hastily written contrived
examples I might :)

 
>    print "There are "+str(number)+" ways to skin a "+furryanimal
> 
> but the format string does the conversion for free.
> 
> The other main reason for preferring format strings is that 
> they make it 
> easier to refactor the code. If you ever want to move the 
> message away from 
> where the formatting is done then it's a lot easier to 
> extract a single 
> string than it is to clean up the concatenation.
> -- 


This is a benefit of pythons implementation of format strings I hadn't
considered, that __str__() is called to get the representation. And
something I like about python, althgouh at the moment the __xxx__
methods available and their use is something I'm just getting into


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