gaurangns...@gmail.com wrote: > I am trying to combine string and dict in the print statement, however > getting an error. Would someone let me know what will be correct way to do > that. > > stats={'lname': 'shah', 'fname': 'gaurang'} > a=test > > print "%s %(fname)s %(lname)s" %(a,stats) > > Following is the error I am getting > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: format requires a mapping
Try the str.format() method: >>> stats = {'lname': 'shah', 'fname': 'gaurang'} >>> a = "test" >>> print "{0} {1[fname]} {1[lname]}".format(a, stats) test gaurang shah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list