How do you know which ones to use? Your best bet is to write a handler for the TypeError and give a meaningful error message.
Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with > more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to > do that. For example: > > >>> "%i" % 10 > '10' > >>> "i" % 10 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting > > The thing is, I want to get format strings from the user, and I don't > want to require the user to consume all the arguments. docs.python.org > doesn't seem to have any clues on how to achieve this, and I can't think > of what to google for. > > Could it be as I fear, that it is impossible? > > Fredrik Tolf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
