On Sun, 3 May 2020 19:38:06 -0700 (PDT) James Smith <bjlockie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried: > dt=+"{:02d}".format(day) > but I got: > dt=+"{:02d}".format(day) > TypeError: bad operand type for unary +: 'str' > > This works: > dt=dt+"{:02d}".format(day) > > Why can't I do the shortcut on strings? ITYM: dt += "{:02d}".format(day) Note += rather than =+ (which is parsed as an assignment operator followed by a unary plus operator). -- “Atoms are not things.” – Werner Heisenberg Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list