The argument to string format expression needs to be a tuple not a list. Also, all the string escaping makes this very hard to read. You can mix single and double quotes to achieve:
print '\t\t\t<section number="%i" title="%s" length="%i:%i"/>\n' % \ (number, name, seconds // 60, seconds % 60) which IMHO is much easier to read. Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I must be doing something wrong, but for the life of me, I can't figure > out what. Here's the code snippet which is giving me grief: > > print type(number), type(name), type(seconds // 60), type(seconds % 60) > print "\t\t\t<section number=\"%i\" title=\"%s\" length=\"%i:%i\"/>\n" > % [number, name, seconds // 60, seconds % 60] > > (These are lines 49 and 50 of the script; I can post the whole thing if > someone wants, but I think this is enough to see why it's driving me > nuts.) > > And the output: > > <type 'int'> <type 'str'> <type 'int'> <type 'int'> > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "X:\Music (FLAC)\Post-process new rips.py", line 50, in ? > print "\t\t\t<section number=\"%i\" title=\"%s\" > length=\"%i:%i\"/>\n" % [number, name, seconds // 60, seconds % 60] > TypeError: int argument required > > Wait, what? The first line clearly identifies that the the first, > third, and fourth elements are all integers, yet the error says that > *lack* of integers is the problem. If I change all "%i"s to "%d", I > get the same problem, and changing to "%s" (hey, it was worth a shot) > gives "TypeError: not enough arguments for format string" instead. > Huh? I see four placeholders and a four-element tuple. > > Can anyone enlighten me here? > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list