Multiline parsing of python compiler demistification needed
Frank Millman
frank at chagford.com
Thu Jun 16 05:00:29 EDT 2016
"Yubin Ruan" wrote in message
news:930753e3-4c9c-45e9-9117-d340c033ac66 at googlegroups.com...
> Hi, everyone, I have some problem understand the rule which the python
> compiler use to parsing the multiline string.
>
> Consider this snippet:
>
> str_1 = "foo"
> str_2 = "bar"
>
> print "A test case" + \
> "str_1[%s] " + \
> "str_2[%s] " % (str_1, str_2)
>
> Why would the snippet above give me an "TypeError: not all arguments
> converted during string formatting" while the one below not ?
This has nothing to do with multi-line strings.
Try that as a single line -
print "A test case " + "str_1[%s] " + "str_2[%s]" % (str_1, str_2)
You will get the same error message.
The reason is that the use of the '+' sign to concatenate strings requires
that each sub-string is a valid string in its own right.
The correct way to write it is -
print "A test case " + "str_1[%s] " % (str_1) + "str_2[%s]" % (str_2)
If you wrote it without the '+' signs, the answer would be different. Python
treats contiguous strings as a single string, so you could write it like
this -
print "A test case " "str_1[%s] " "str_2[%s]" % (str_1, str_2)
Frank Millman
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