Print multiple arguments in Python
There are many ways to do this. To fix your current code using %
-formatting, you need to pass in a tuple:
Pass it as a tuple:
print("Total score for %s is %s" % (name, score))
A tuple with a single element looks like ('this',)
.
Here are some other common ways of doing it:
Pass it as a dictionary:
print("Total score for %(n)s is %(s)s" % {'n': name, 's': score})
There's also new-style string formatting, which might be a little easier to read:
Use new-style string formatting:
print("Total score for {} is {}".format(name, score))
Use new-style string formatting with numbers (useful for reordering or printing the same one multiple times):
print("Total score for {0} is {1}".format(name, score))
Use new-style string formatting with explicit names:
print("Total score for {n} is {s}".format(n=name, s=score))
Concatenate strings:
print("Total score for " + str(name) + " is " + str(score))
The clearest two, in my opinion:
Just pass the values as parameters:
print("Total score for", name, "is", score)
If you don't want spaces to be inserted automatically by
print
in the above example, change thesep
parameter:print("Total score for ", name, " is ", score, sep='')
If you're using Python 2, won't be able to use the last two because
print
isn't a function in Python 2. You can, however, import this behavior from__future__
:from __future__ import print_function
Use the new
f
-string formatting in Python 3.6:print(f'Total score for {name} is {score}')
There are many ways to print that.
Let's have a look with another example.
a = 10b = 20c = a + b#Normal string concatenationprint("sum of", a , "and" , b , "is" , c) #convert variable into strprint("sum of " + str(a) + " and " + str(b) + " is " + str(c)) # if you want to print in tuple wayprint("Sum of %s and %s is %s: " %(a,b,c)) #New style string formattingprint("sum of {} and {} is {}".format(a,b,c)) #in case you want to use repr()print("sum of " + repr(a) + " and " + repr(b) + " is " + repr(c))EDIT :#New f-string formatting from Python 3.6:print(f'Sum of {a} and {b} is {c}')
Use: .format()
:
print("Total score for {0} is {1}".format(name, score))
Or:
// Recommended, more readable codeprint("Total score for {n} is {s}".format(n=name, s=score))
Or:
print("Total score for" + name + " is " + score)
Or:
print("Total score for %s is %d" % (name, score))
Or: f-string
formatting from Python 3.6:
print(f'Total score for {name} is {score}')
Can use repr
and automatically the ''
is added:
print("Total score for" + repr(name) + " is " + repr(score))# or for advanced: print(f'Total score for {name!r} is {score!r}')