python string substitution

Question

Is there a simple way of passing a list as the parameter to a string substitution in python ? Something like:

w = ['a', 'b', 'c']

s = '%s\t%s\t%s\n' % w

Something similar to the way dictionaries work in this case.

Answer 1

Just convert the list to a tuple:

w = ['a', 'b', 'c']
s = '%s\t%s\t%s\n' % tuple(w)