In message <mailman.2303.1246287643.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> The fact that it's the same character used for formatting strings with the > % operator is an unfortunate coincidence (or a very bad choice, I don't > know). That's not the problem. The problem is that MySQLdb IS indeed using Python format substitution to do its argument substitution. Python expects the value for "%d" to be an integer. But MySQLdb has already converted all the argument values to strings. Hence the error. If MySQLdb were doing its own parsing of the format string, it could produce a more meaningful error message when it sees "%d" (e.g. "only %s substitutions allowed"). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
