On Apr 26, 8:34 pm, asker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > I have next Python 2.5.1 instructions: > > >>> a=12.34 > >>> b=11.23 > >>> print a+b > > 23.57 > > >>> print "%15.2f" % (a+b) > > 23.57 > > But:>>> print "%15.2f" % a+b > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'float' objects > > Is this correct for Python to issue this error?
The % operator has higher precedence than +. Thus, "%15.2f" % a+b == ("%15.2f" % a)+b, an illegal str+float addition. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list