Question

Is it possible, in Python, to do something similar to:

echo 'Content of $var is ', print_r($var, TRUE);

in PHP?

I have a variable var and I would like to assign its contents in a readable form to a string, for example:

str = 'Hello. '
str = str + var

Answer 1

You could simply use str(var), as in:

s = 'Hello. ' + str(var)

Here, str is a built-in function, and has nothing to do with the str you have in your script. When coding in Python, please avoid names that coincide with the names of built-in functions.

An alternative way is to use the string formatting operator %:

s = 'Hello. %s' % var