Adding $ infront of variable within print statement in python 3.3.4

Question

I have the following statement:

print ("You have entered the price of ",var1, "for a chocolate bar")

Which works happily however i need to put a '$' infront of it for the output. I tried hiding it in the print statement however then you end up with a gap between it so you end up with

'You have entered the price of $ 34.33 for a chocolate bar'.

I need it to be:

'You have entered the price of $34.33 for a chocolate bar'.

I am very new to python, and this is tripping me up. Any help would be appreciated. Im using python 3.3.4

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 07:45

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format is the recommended way to do this.

print("You have entered the price of ${0} for a chocolate bar".format(var1))

answered Mar 18 '14 at 07:45

Jayanth Koushik

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where can I find documentation about the fact that format is the recommended way? – Ottavio Campana Mar 18 '14 at 07:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 07:49

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print "You have entered the price of ","$"+str(var1), "for a chocolate bar"

answered Mar 18 '14 at 07:49

aelor

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Adding $ infront of variable within print statement in python 3.3.4

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