Duncan Booth wrote:
>Jason wrote:
>
>
>
>>My first problem (lack of understanding of course) is that if I run the
>>above, I get an error saying:
>>
>> print "%s - %s" % name,score
>>TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>>
>>Now I understand what it's saying, but I don't understand why.
>>
>>
>>
>
>The problem is precedence.
>
> print "%s - %s" % name,score
>
>is equivalent to:
>
> print ("%s - %s" % name),score
>
>not:
>
> print "%s - %s" % (name,score)
>
>The % operator binds more tightly than the comma, so you need to put
>parentheses around the argument to % (as in the last line above).
>
>
Well said. :)
- Peter
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