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Subject: 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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