<human>:  What is the most pythonic way to avoid specifying the same value in a string
<bot>: Here is some code to format string `hello {name}, how are you {name}, welcome {name}` to be interspersed by `name` three times, specifying the value as `john` only once

"""hello {name}, how are you {name}, welcome {name}""".format(name='john')

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