How do I use Python to easily expand variables to strings?

Question

What\'s a nice idiom to do this:

Instead of: print \"%s is a %s %s that %s\" % (name, adjective, noun, verb)

I want to be able to do something to th

Answer 1

For python 2 do:

print name,'is a',adjective,noun,'that',verb

For python 3 add parens:

print(name,'is a',adjective,noun,'that',verb)

If you need to save it to a string, you'll have to concatenate with the + operator and you'll have to insert spaces. print inserts a space at all the , unless there is a trailing comma at the end of the parameters, in which case it forgoes the newline.

To save to string var:

result = name+' is a '+adjective+' '+noun+' that '+verb