On May 21, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Kinuthia Muchane wrote: >>>> st = "String" >>>> print "%s " %st*3 > String String String >>>> > > Does this help? Another approach is to use dictionaries for string replacement. >>> subst = {'some': 'thing'} >>> print "%(some)s%(some)s%(some)s" % subst thingthingthing -jeff