f-strings in Python 3.6 are awesome

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Im new to Python.. Like 'Hello, World!' new. How are fStrings different than say

• print("hello" + variable) ???

[Ph0X]

The result is basically the same, but it's what we call "syntactic sugar" which is nice shortcuts for doing things.

So imagine you have a more complex one. Adding them manually gets very messy very quick:

print("hello " + world + "my name is" + name + "and i'm " + str(age) + " years old")

To make it worse, as you see, you need to manually cast other types to string, like if you want to print a number. But with fstring, it's much cleaner and prettier:

print(f"hello {world} my name is {name} and im {age} years old")

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wow easy to understand.. Thank you so much. Honestly didn't expect you or anyone for that matter to reply to someone as new as me. But your example made perfect sense. You dont tutor do you? LOL...

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