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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:07:46 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>> print "{} was captured by {}".format(solo, jabba)
> Is this Python2.7 specific?
> 
> Python 2.6.x : 
>>>> print "{} was captured by {}".format('t1', 't2')
> ValueError: zero length field name in format

Apparently it is 2.7 and greater -- my apologies for not specifying that.

~Ethan~