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Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:01 PM, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> I changed it to all lowercase, this time I get a different error message
> though (a TypeError message) 

The error message means there's a mismatch between the number of
formatting instructions (ie, %s) and arguments passed to formatting. I
leave it to you to count and find what's missing or extra, because I'm
seriously not going to do that :)

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Stephen Hansen
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Python Madlibs.py code and error message Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 21:37 -0700
  Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-28 16:50 +1200
    Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 22:01 -0700
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-27 22:16 -0700
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-28 15:32 +1000
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Stephen Hansen <me@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-27 23:50 -0700
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-28 16:55 +1000
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Stephen Hansen <me@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-28 00:08 -0700
        Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-28 17:25 +1000
          Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 04:12 -0700
      Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-28 17:17 +1000
  Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-27 21:55 -0700

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