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alankrinsky@gmail.com wrote:

> I tried placing in the format you suggested and received this error
> message:
> 
> END PROGRAM.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 396, in <module>
> ValueError: incomplete format key

You seem to have a malformed format string. Example:

Correct:

>>> "Wonderful %(what)s" % dict(what="Spam")
'Wonderful Spam'

Broken (not the missing ')'):

>>> "Wonderful %(whats" % dict(what="Spam")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: incomplete format key