Question

I’m self teaching myself python by delving right in. I’m not sure if a function does this if you leave it empty:

#My first section that pulls a value from a random shuffle of codes
print "\n"
print "-"*10
print 'This is a test of the %s system'% codes[0]
print "-"*10
print "\n"

#My second section that pulls a value from a random shuffle of codes
print "\n"
print "-"*10
print 'This is not a test of the %s system and all is good'% codes[1]
print "-"*10
print "\n"

My question is, is there a way to make it nicer looking and with fewer lines of code? Or am I stuck with having 10 lines of print?

Answer 1

If you want to show different messages, you can define a function that receives the message to be printed:

def print_message(message):
    print "\n"
    print "-"*10
    print message
    print "-"*10
    print "\n"

print_message('This is a test of the %s system' % codes[0])
print_message('This is not a test of the %s system and all is good'% codes[1])