Just playing with it here (Win, Maya 2012/x64) it comes up with a TypeError:
not enough arguments for format string. I've not really used much % string
formatting so I'm at a mild loss, but the same code works fine in say, IDLE, so
I've a half guess it's how the code block is being passed through to the python
interpreter
Hm, in fact, I'll bet my hat on that - trying this:
print "This really should work, %s"%("right")
Gives me a *KeyError*. Traceback as follows:
# File "<string>", line 2, in pythonFormat
# KeyError: u"'right'" //
# Error: invalid syntax
# File "<maya console>", line 2
#
# ^
# SyntaxError: invalid syntax #
So whatever is mangling the text in the UI editor to get it into a python
interpreter is doing something a tad odd to the string. Short answer appears to
be not to use % based formatting, alas.
On 19 Jun 2014, at 11:52, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can see a reason for that to fail. Does it just say syntax error?
> On Jun 18, 2014 3:38 PM, "Brian Eyre" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was getting intermittent syntax errors from code entered into the popup
> menu of a shelf button, and have narrowed it down to an issue with using '%'
> in string formatting. Example:
>
> text = 'working'
> print 'why is this command not %s'%text
>
> I'm wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has a solution?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Brian.
>
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