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user10913773

Reputation:

Concatenate string parameters with Python

Am trying to implement a concatenation of strings in python, these strings are passed into the function as multiple parameters via a tuple...I just quite can't figure out how to process multiple string parameters and use join method to put a - delimiter between the strings. For example when i pass values I, Love,Python, am expecting to see I-Love-Python.. Check out below

##Define a function that takes multiple string arguments
def concatenate(*args):
         #Got a problem processing the tuple elements and append delimiter - to the end of each word
         #Tried using a set with its add method but it didn't work
          u=len(args)#Get the length of the arguments tuple
          myarray={0}#initialize a new set to length 0
          for k in range(0, u):
            myarray.add(args[k]+"-")#append delimiter for every tuple member
             return myarray
        
##call concatenate with parameters and print
print(concatenate("I","Love","Python"))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5193

Answers (2)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 34431

As noted in the comments section above, you can simply use Python's built-in string function, i.e., .join(), to concatenate multiple string parameters separated by a delimiter (in this case, that is -). Example:

s = '-'.join(['I','Love','Python'])
print(s)  # I-Love-Python

Note: if you have non-string attributes, you have to convert those to strings first. For example:

points = 3
s = '-'.join(['Each','player', 'has', str(points),'points'])
print(s)  # Each-player-has-3-points

If you had to do this through a function that expects a number of arguments, for instance def concatenate(*args), then simply use '-'.join(args). Again, remember to convert any non-string arguments first, or use the below to automatically convert any non-string arguments to string, before concatenating them.

def concatenate(*args):
    return "-".join(map(str, list(args)))
        
print(concatenate('Each', 'player', 'has', 3, 'points'))  # Each-player-has-3-points

Upvotes: -1

Bhavin Kariya
Bhavin Kariya

Reputation: 87

Change your code as shown below:

##Define a function that takes multiple string arguments
def concatenate(*args):
    return "-".join(args)
        
##call concatenate with parameters and print
print(concatenate("I","Love","Python"))

OUTPUT:

'I-Love-Python'

Upvotes: 1

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