i Don't get why it makes trouble

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Me wrote:

> 13-08-2009 azrael <jura.grozni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> j
>> [u'Tata', u'Oriovac', u'PrimorskoGoranska', u'hrvatska', u'Kuna']
>>>>> len(j)
>> 5
>>>>> h = """SELECT distinct u.id_ulica, o.id_opcina, z.id_zupanija,  
>>>>> d.id_drzava, v.id_valuta FROM   ulica as u, opcina as o, zupanija as  
>>>>> z, drzava as d, valuta as v  WHERE  u.naziv = '%s' AND o.naziv =  
>>>>> '%s' AND z.naziv = '%s' AND d.naziv = '%s' AND v.naziv = '%s'""" %  
>>>>> (j)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 1, in <string>
>> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>>
>>
>> I want to format the string. the list has five elements and the string
>> has five placeholder but it wont format the string
>
> j must be a tuple -- so either define it as
[snip]

PS. If you use Python 2.6 or newer, better use .format() method
(then you can use also a list):

>>> h = """SELECT distinct u.id_ulica, o.id_opcina, z.id_zupanija, \
... d.id_drzava, v.id_valuta FROM   ulica as u, opcina as o, zupanija as \
... z, drzava as d, valuta as v  WHERE  u.naziv = '{0}' AND o.naziv = \
... '{1}' AND z.naziv = '{2}' AND d.naziv = '{3}' AND v.naziv = '{4}'\
... """.format(*j)


Cheers,
*j

-- 
Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>