Basic Python help

[mikael petterson]

fredag 23 oktober 2020 kl. 13:22:55 UTC+2 skrev Frank Millman:
> On 2020-10-23 12:41 PM, mikael petterson wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I need to use the following code but in java. 
> > 
> > END_DELIM = '\n##\n' 
> > def start_delim(data_len): return '\n#%s\n' % (data_len) 
> > data = "%s%s%s" % (start_delim(len(data)), data, END_DELIM) 
> > 
> > Can anyone help me to understand what it means: 
> > 
> > I am guessing now: 
> > 
> > a function defined "start_delim" takes the length of a data string. 
> > function does modulo on something. This something I am not sure of 
> > :-) 
> > Does '\n#%s\n' will this be evaluated to a number when %s i replaced with data_len? 
> > 
> > Then the result is used as one parameter in "%s%s%s" 
> > start_delim then for the other 
> > data 
> > END_DELIM 
> >
> I think it is simpler than that. 
> 
> >>> 
> >>> '\n#%s\n' % 2 
> '\n#2\n' 
> >>> 
> 
> All it is doing is replacing '%s' with the length of the string. 
> 
> So the result is the concatenation of - 
> 
> 1. '\n' + '#' + length of string + '\n' as the start delimiter 
> 
> 2. the string itself 
> 
> 3. '\n' + '#' + '#' + '\n' as the end delimiter 
> 
> Frank Millman

Yes that was simpler than I thought. Thanks a lot!