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From: Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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Subject: Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:55:38 +1000
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Stephen Hansen <me@ixokai.io> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named
> > (not positional) parameters in the format string. […]
> > 
> >     <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. 

Everything I described above works fine in Python 2. Any still-supported
version has ‘str.format’.

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Ben Finney