On 27/06/2006 7:51 AM, Kiana Toufighi wrote: > Hi, > > I get a very odd error: > ValueError: unsupported format character 't' (0x74) at index 237 > > Here's my code: > HI_LITE_FILE_NAME = '/var/tmp/out.txt' > > print ''' > <a > href="http://bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/ntools/cgi-bin/ntools_treeview_word.cgi?input=&max=2&values_off=no&remove_bracket=no&show_line_nr=yes&show_link_out=yes&decimal_places=10&show_classification=yes&db=arabidopsis&selection=any%20term&mode=&mode_nos=&yellow_blue=yes&local_file_name=%(OUT_FILE_NAME)s&show_instructions=no&expt_link=NASCArrays&max_adjust=2&view_size=large&highlight=%(HI_LITE_FILE_NAME)s">GraphicalOutput</a> > > > ''' % {'OUT_FILE_NAME': OUT_FILE_NAME, 'HI_LITE_FILE_NAME': > HI_LITE_FILE_NAME}
That code produces: NameError: name 'OUT_FILE_NAME' is not defined When that is remedied, *then* one gets the ValueError. *Please*, when asking a question, post exactly the code that you ran, and include the full traceback, not just the last line. > > I wonder if this has something to do with HTML's % character. I'm not sure why you are wondering. The error message told you exactly what the problem was and exactly where it was (offset 237) in your format string. . Your format string (the first operand of the string % operator) contains ...&selection=any%20term... and the %20t looks like a formatting operation, but (like it said) 't' is not valid. To overcome this you would need to escape any '%' that is actually part of the URL by doubling it ...&selection=any%%20term... This is nothing to do with HTML ... *any* stray '%' will give you grief: |>> '1% of %s are difficult to understand' % 'error messages' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: int argument required Have you read this: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html ? It may help. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
