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Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> writes:
> 
> > 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 :)
> 
> Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named (not
> positional) parameters in the format string.
> 
>     Some simple format string examples:
> 
>     "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'
>     […]
> 
>     <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. 

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

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Python Madlibs.py code and error message Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 21:37 -0700
  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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