Rewrite string formatting without format function

Question

I have this piece of code:

parse_string = \
    '&category={0}&v=2'.format('%2C+'.join(tag.strip() for tag in tags_list))

how can I rewrite this to be python 2.4 compatible (so the same functionality but without using format function) ?

Answer 1

I think something like this will do it:

'&category=%s&v=2' % '%2C+'.join(tag.strip() for tag in tags_list)