How to remove quotation marks (and other marks)?

Question

Is there any way to avoid printing out data (like quotations marks, brackets, commas and other important matematical symbols) when printing from a variable?

int1 = random.randint(1,100)
int2 = random.randint(1,100)
q1 = "What is", int1, "+", int2, "?"
answer = int(raw_input(q1))

The code above prints this:

('What is', 75, '+', 74, '? ')149

The proper way of printing the above would supposedly be this:

What is 75 + 74? 149

`q1` is a tuple. If you wanted to make a string use `+` to concatenate and explicitly convert numbers to string using `str`. — Bakuriu, Apr 10 '14 at 11:23

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:22

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The "proper way" is to use str.format:

q1 = "What is {0} + {1}? ".format(int1, int2)
answer = int(raw_input(q1))

answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:22

jonrsharpe

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:23

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The clearest syntax I believe would be the one that separates the constant string from the variables:

print "What is %d + %d?" % (int1, int2)

answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:23

bosnjak

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:21

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Simple:

q1 = "What is" +  str(int1) +  "+" + str(int2) + "?"

or

' '.join([str(x) for x in q1])

answered Apr 10 '14 at 11:21

Sufian Latif

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How to remove quotation marks (and other marks)?

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