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From: Stephen Hansen <me@ixokai.io>
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Subject: Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:50:46 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> writes:
>=20
> > 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 :)
>=20
> Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named (not
> positional) parameters in the format string.
>=20
>     Some simple format string examples:
>=20
>     "First, thou shalt count to {0}" # References first positional
>     argument
>     "Bring me a {}"                  # Implicitly references the first
>     positional argument
>     "From {} to {}"                  # Same as "From {0} to {1}"
>     "My quest is {name}"             # References keyword argument 'name'
>     [=E2=80=A6]
>=20
>     <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings>

Except the poster is not using Python 3, so all of this is for naught.=20

--=20
Stephen Hansen
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