[Tutor] First program

[Alan Gauld]

"Luke Paireepinart" <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote

>>>  print "The area of a " + Choice + "is " str(Width) + " x " +
>>>          str(Height) + " equals " + str(Width * Height) + " square 
>>> feet"

>> One thing - you don't need all the str() calls in your example, print
>> already calls str() for you. Also comma separators are better than + 
>> signs
>>
>  print actually doesn't call str if you use concatenation.  So the str()
> calls are necessary if you do not use "," but use "+" instead.

Good catch! - you are, of course, right. When you use + print only
sees a big single string with all the str() conversions already
done. I was thinking of the more usual comma separated
arguments to print

Alan G.