On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Eli Courtwright wrote:

I've found what might be a bug in Python's % string formatting operator. Consider the following code:

"%%(%s)=%%s" % "hello"

On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin" this produces the string "%(hello)s=%s" which is what I'd expect.

On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32" this produces the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

Note that this is the exact same revision running on the same machine, but it doesn't work for the win32 version and does work for the cygwin version.

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2007/10/8, Eli Courtwright :

On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32" this produces the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

Please check it again, because in my machine... Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

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"%%(%s)=%%s" % "hello" '%(hello)=%s'

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