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Re: Newbie coding question - format error

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Thanks for the input. The main thing was that the replacement fields were only valid for their local environment. 

/martin 

On 29 Jun 2014, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>On 6/29/2014 3:06 AM, Martin S wrote:
>
>A couple of additional notes:
>
>> x=int(input('Enter an integer '))
>> y=int(input('Enter another integer '))
>> z=int(input('Enter a third integer '))
>> formatStr='Integer {0}, {1}, {2}, and the sum is {3}.'
>
>When the replacement fields and arguments are in the same order, the 
>indexes are optional. The following works, and might be less confusing.
>
>formatStr = 'Integer {}, {}, {}, and the sum is {}.'
>
>> equations=formatStr.format(x,y,z,x+y+z)
>
>We no longer have a space shortage ;-). The following is easier to
>read.
>
>equations = formatStr.format(x, y, z, x+y+z)
>
>> print(equations)
>
>Compute quotient and remainder with the divmod function.
>
>q, r = divmod(x, y)
>
>Both are computed at once and x // y and x % y just toss the other 
>answer. x // y == divmod(x, y)[0], x % y == divmod(x, y)[1]

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