On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kevin Glover <kevinglove...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you both so much. I had tried % but not successfully.
To do it with %, just do this: whatever = "cat" results = w.search("\"of the %s's\""%whatever, type=ALL, start=1, count=1) Use either that or .format(), whichever you like - both are fully supported, and they have different strengths. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list