Question

For example i’m printing something like:

print ('Number of Elephants less than %s: %s' % (str(floatB),str(len(myList))))

That ends with 4 brackets and doesn’t feel very pythonic! Is there a better way? It’s not really a performance thing, but I’m just going through the code and want to make it a little cleaner than that.

Answer 1

You can lose the str() calls:

print('Number of Elephants less than %s: %s' % (floatB, len(myList)))

This has exactly the same effect as your original code, since %s results in an automatic call to str() for the argument in question.

Note that instead of %s you could use the more specific %d (for the integer) and %e, %E, %f, %F, %g or %G for the float. These format specifiers are more flexible in that they allow you to specify the number of digits to print etc.