Insert variable into text search string

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On 2014-02-19 19:39, Kevin Glover wrote:
> These two lines are from a program that carries out a phrase search of Wikipedia and returns the total number of times that the specific phrase occurs. It is essential that the search contains an apostrophe:
>
> results = w.search("\"of the cat's\"", type=ALL, start=1, count=1)
> print results.total
>
> I want to replace the word "cat" with a variable, e.g.
>
> q = "cat"
>
> so that I can generate the same search format for a list of different words. How do I format the search string to include the variable, please? I am using Python 2.7.
>
Try string concatenation:

     results = w.search("\"of the " + q + "'s\"", type=ALL, start=1, 
count=1)