Python Madlibs.py code and error message

[Cai Gengyang]

Ok, I got it to work with no error message finally ...

Enter a name: cai gengyang 
Enter an adjective: beautiful 
Enter a second adjective: honest 
Enter a third adjective: pretty 
Enter a verb: hit 
Enter a second verb: run 
Enter a third verb: jump 
Enter a noun: honesty 
Enter a noun: patience 
Enter a noun: happiness 
Enter a noun: danger 
Enter an animal: elephant 
Enter a food: burger 
Enter a fruit: watermelon 
Enter a number: 1985 
Enter a superhero_name: batman 
Enter a country: america 
Enter a dessert: icekachang 
Enter a year: 1984 
This morning I woke up and felt 
because _ was going to finally h 
e big _ honest. On the other sid 
onesty were many patiences prote 
eep elephant in stores. The crow 
_ to the rythym of the burger, 
all of the runs very _. happine 
o _ into the sewers and found wa 
ats. Needing help, pretty quickl 
ump. 1985 appeared and saved cai 
by flying to batman and dropping 
puddle of america. icekachang th 
leep and woke up in the year 198 
rld where dangers ruled the worl 
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On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 3:25:46 PM UTC+8, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2016 17:08, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Stephen Hansen <me at ixokai.io> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> > > Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named
> >> > > (not positional) parameters in the format string. [...]
> >> > > 
> >> > >     <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.
> >> 
> >> Everything I described above works fine in Python 2. Any still-supported
> >> version has 'str.format'.
> > 
> > This response is completely unhelpful. The OP is using Python 2, and
> > using %-formatting, and so you give a series of examples of using
> > str.format, to, what? Confuse matters?
> 
> How about we assume good faith and give Ben the benefit of the doubt that he 
> simply made a minor and trivial misjudgement rather than accusing him of 
> intentionally trying to confuse matters?
> 
> You are correct that the OP can use % formatting with named arguments. Ben 
> is correct that the OP can also change his code to use str.format. Some 
> people hate %-formatting and cannot wait to migrate to {}-formatting, and 
> some people don't.
> 
> (For the record, Internet rumours that %-formatting is deprecated are simply 
> not correct.)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve