On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:31 AM, <gaurangns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > 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
You need to use either a tuple or a mapping, not a mapping inside a tuple. Or switch to using str.format, which allows more advanced attribute/item look-ups like this.
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