Tom Plunket wrote:
> I know that the message didn't have enough formatters, that's why I
> asked. (Although I would have assumed that the generator would get
> automatically converted to a sequence that was consumable by the
> interpolation operator...)
That's because::
aFormatString % anObject
is a shortcut for::
aFormatString % (anObject,)
so things like::
print "Your birthday is on %s" % date
are allowed. So when the object is an iterator, it's just treated as a
single value in a 1-tuple, rather than iterated over to get its own tuple.
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