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by andybak 4171 days ago
I'd recommend:

    '{} {}'.format('hello', 'world')
But yes - either way - it solves the need to do str() when concatenating.
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andreasvc 4171 days ago
I never understood the need for the new style of formatting, or the advantage. Fortunately % formatting is no longer getting deprecated.
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pyre 4170 days ago
The only downside that I've come across is when you do something like:

  "%s %s" % blah
If a bug causes `blah` to be a string (rather than a tuple or a list), it will attempt to expand the string, possibly giving a confusing error.
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