"Bahadir" <bilgehan.bal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:65b6ce03-62c7-4e56-a746-d85ce87ad...@l31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
Hi there,
My question is simple, but I've been spending some hours over the web
and still struggling to get this right: How do I format a string that
contains single quotes in it?
I am reading a file with lines of the form:
CONT%d_VIRTMEM_REGIONS 'Container %d number of virtual regions'
and trying to format this as follows:
str % (0, 0)
I get the error:
ValueError: unsupported format character '
' (0xa) at index 5541
I also tried:
# Replace single quotes with \'
str = str.replace("'", "\'")
and doubling the backward slash as well.
What am I doing wrong?
A short, working example that exhibits the problem would be helpful, but I
suspect you have a line in your file that ends in a %. The code below
produces the same error.
s = "Here's a percentage: %d%\n"
print s % (0,0)
OUTPUT:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\dev\python\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 436, in ImportFile
my_reload(sys.modules[modName])
File "w.py", line 2, in <module>
print s % (0,0)
ValueError: unsupported format character '
' (0xa) at index 24
Inspect your input file. If you want a percent sign in a format string, use
%%.
s = "Here's percentages: %d%% %d%%\n"
print s % (0,0)
OUTPUT:
Here's percentages: 0% 0%
-Mark
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