Metadata

ID: python-best-practices/avoid-string-concat

Language: Python

Severity: Warning

Category: Performance

Description

Concatenation of multiple strings is not efficient and make the code hard to read and understand.

Instead of concatenating multiple strings, use an f-string or a format string.

Learn More

• Python Documentation: str.format()
• Python Documentation - f-string

Non-Compliant Code Examples

"my" + awesome + "string"
plop = "super" + "awesome" + "text"

Compliant Code Examples

"my {0} string".format(awesome)
f"my {awesome} string"
plop = "superawesometext"

function(
    tags = (
    user_tags
    + s.get("tags", [])
    + [
        f"schedule_id:{s['_id']}",
        f"schedule_name:{s['schedule_name']}",
        f"git_ref:{schedule_git_ref}",
    ]
)
)

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