Newbie Question about sequence multiplication

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Scott a écrit :
(snip)
> print ' ' * left_margin + '|  ' + ' '   sentence       + ' |'
                                         ^
                                a '+' is missing here

(snip)
> Now if i put * before sentence as it is with the rest of the variables, it
> actually gets to the point where it asks me for the sentence, but after
> inputting my sentence I receive:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "D:/Programming/Python/sequence string multiplication example", line
> 16, in <module>
>     print ' ' * left_margin + '|  ' + ' ' * sentence       + ' |'
> TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'str'

Of course. You can't multiply a string by another string.