Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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’.

This response is completely unhelpful. The OP is using Python 2, and
using %-formatting, and so you give a series of examples of using
str.format, to, what? Confuse matters?

You can show using non-positional values using the format the user is
using -- "%(name)s" formatting. You even reference a link to the Python
3 docs, even though the OP is running code which isn't 3.x compatible.
Confusion.

Wishing Python2 away isn't helpful. 

-- 
Stephen Hansen
  m e @ i x o k a i  . i o

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  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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