On May 6, 6:51 pm, marek.ro...@wp.pl wrote: > Dustan napisa³(a): > > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > > (Intel)] on > > win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> 'HELP!%(xyz)/' % {'xyz':' PLEASE! '} > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > ValueError: unsupported format character '/' (0x2f) at index 11 > > > It doesn't like the forward slash after the closed parentheses. I > > don't know what it is expecting, but I need that slash there > > (obviously this is a simplified example). > > > All help appreciated. > > Strign formatting docs (http://docs.python.org/library/ > stdtypes.html#string-formatting) say that specifying a conversion type > is mandatory. So you actually should write something like: > 'HELP!%(xyz)s/' % {'xyz':' PLEASE! '}
Thanks. That seems to have worked nicely. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list