Re: For next loops

jkstra | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: coding style - where to declare variables

typed reference to an object. I expect both of these requests to meet with little satisfaction. -- \ “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that | `\ divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of | _o__)being correct.” —Niels Bohr (to Wolfga

Re: coding style - where to declare variables

v/peps/pep-0526/ is titled "Syntax for Variable Annotations". It describes: "This PEP aims at adding syntax to Python for annotating the types of variables (including class variables and instance variables), instead of expressing them through comments" -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anyone using cloud based monitoring/logging services with Python logging module?

frameworks of many languages, including Python's ‘logging’ module. -- \ “When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my | `\ age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six | _o__) I'll be ninety.” —Steven

Re: Why did logging not undergo PEP8 API change?

and incorporated into law and policy.” | _o__) —Russell Blackford, 2010-03-06 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to start gnuradio

believe in it.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2011-02-04 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Good reason not to obfuscate URLs (was: Fishing from PyPI ?)

son & Sussman, | _o__) _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to pass Python command line options (vs arguments) when running script directly vs via Python interpreter?

Pilgrim, 2006 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Writing bytes to stdout reverses the bytes

e might think that dumping out bytes in the correct order ought to > be the default format for hexdump. It is if you run it as hd. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Enum with nested classes or with types as members

ferences.” —David Weinberger | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which class method is being called when we declare below expression?

hat object. > And > L =[] All the above description also applies to that assignment statement. -- \“If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and | `\you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag | _o__) would be to

Re: Which class method is being called when we declare below expression?

Ben Finney writes: > Ajay Patel writes: > > > L = [1,2,3] > > That's not an expression; it is an assignment statement. > > The right-hand side is an expression. […] in this case, [the object] a new > instance of 'list' […] is the result of evaluating t

Re: What's an elegant way to test for list index existing?

whatever optimisations the in-built comprehension mechanics provide. -- \ “Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in | `\ behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's an elegant way to test for list index existing?

Ben Finney writes: > You can use a comprehension, iterating over the full range of index you > want:: > > words = shlex.split(line) > padding_length = 5 > words_padded = [ > (words[index] if index < len(words)) > for index in range(paddi

This thread is closed (was: [OT] master/slave debate in Python)

which prompted this instance. -- \ “Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, | `\ once we got as used to it.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: This thread is closed [an actual new thread]

Ethan Furman writes: > On 10/01/2018 04:26 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > If there is some specific formal meaning to the above statement, I > > don't know where it's documented. If it's not a specific formal > > statement, that is itself troubling, because it

Python indentation (correct behaviour) (was: Python indentation (3 spaces))

its speaker a raving lunatic.” —Dresden James | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. | `\ But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take | _o__) it seriously.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ESR "Waning of Python" post

received and am still receiving” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: snakify issues

ot of incorrect terminology. But the material itself is so dull -- numbers, arithmetic, more numbers, factorials, more arithmetic, numbers... And when a string exercise came up (capitalise a word) the hint was to use ord and chr. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 394

ing 60 MPH.” | _o__) —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Tutor] SyntaxError: can't assign to literal while using ""blkid -o export %s | grep 'TYPE' | cut -d"=" -f3" % (fs)" using subprocess module in Python

ort | grep TYPE | cut -d= -f2" Note that "TYPE" and "=" don't really need to be quoted at all. Someone suggested sed, and that too can be used like this: blkid %s -o export | sed -ne '/TYPE=/s///p' -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List of Functions

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > >> Ben Bacarisse writes: >> >>> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned >>> here -- a function with no name) were born of a

Re: Useless expressions

he code object is available on that code object's '__doc__' attribute. […] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docstring#Python> -- \ “True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you |

Re: Help me

to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.” | _o__) —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help me

Smith writes: > Il 29/03/2016 11:17, Ben Finney ha scritto: > > You'll get better help if you: > > > > * Summarise the problem briefly in the Subject field. > > > > * Actually say anything useful in the message body. > > > thanks a lot You're

Re: HELP! With calculating

—Sam Harris, at _Beyond Belief 2006_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sympy

.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Statements as expressions [was Re: Undefined behaviour in C]

procedure" but it maintained the distinction in that functions had (have?) a type and subroutines didn't (don't). Algol 68 uses PROC for both and the type VOID for procedures with no value. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interpreter not selected

of your own existence is the most astonishing fact | `\you'll ever have to confront. Don't dare ever see your life as | _o__)boring, monotonous, or joyless.” —Richard Dawkins, 2010-03-10 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert set to list

ined as commands. Such as ‘list’. -- \ “The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the | `\ trouble with Christianity is the Christians.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/m

Get the output from a Popen instance (was: Failed to update the os.environ with subprocess.Popen.)

ke it much easier to search for the documentation to understand the problem. https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.stdout> -- \ “When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no | `\ test in reality, this [the Auschwitz crematorium] is how they

Re: [Beginner] - Hanging in the code, can't figure out what's wrong

passionate position when you ask the volunteers here for help next time. -- \ “Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't | `\ know.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | _o__)

Re: Launcher for 64 bits doesnt work

it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and | _o__) happy purchase.” —J. Balguy | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Promoting Python

g forum https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>. -- \“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be | `\ found out.” —Oscar Wilde, _Phrases and Philosophies for the Use | _o__) of the Young_, 1894 | Ben Finney -- https:/

Re: python script for .dat file

code to do, and what happens instead, and how that is different from what you expect. -- \ “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them | `\to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their | _o__) own desires.” —Susan Brownell Anthony,

Re: Joining Strings

rates the behaviour confusing you. -- \ “[Entrenched media corporations will] maintain the status quo, | `\ or die trying. Either is better than actually WORKING for a | _o__) living.” —ringsnake.livejournal.com, 2007-11-12 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unacceptable behavior

Aaron Presley (1935–1977) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: read a file and remove Mojibake chars

e companies pay for being unoriginal.” | `\—Yves Béhar, _New York Times_ interview 2010-12-30 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

guard even his | `\ enemy from oppression.” —Thomas Paine | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

Gates, 2004-01-24 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

Antoon Pardon writes: > Op 07-04-16 om 23:08 schreef Ben Finney: > > You are essentially describing the new internal API of comparison > > operators. That's pretty much unavoidable. > > And nobody thought about this kind of cases I'm quite confident the API cha

QWERTY was not designed to intentionally slow typists down (was: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?])

.” —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Repair??

om facts?” —Kathryn Schulz, 2015-10-19 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to convert code that uses cmp to python3

implementations are suspect and likely can be improved: at least parity should be possible, to the point of statistical insignificance. -- \“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear | `\ than I who receive it.” —Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake by | _o__

Re: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?]

jk together, but they almost never appear together in English text. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?]

Ben Bacarisse writes: > alister writes: > >> >> the design of qwerty was not to "Slow" the typist bu to ensure that the >> hammers for letters commonly used together are spaced widely apart, >> reducing the portion of trier travel arc were the could

Re: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?]

Rustom Mody writes: > On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7:14:05 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> The problem with that theory is that 'er/re' (this is e and r in either >> order) is the 3rd most common pair in English but have been placed >> together. ou and et

Re: REMOVE ME

, | _o__) 1977 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Most probably a stupid question, but I still want to ask

eads to boredom, boredom to horrifying mistakes, | `\ horrifying mistakes to God-I-wish-I-was-still-bored, and it | _o__) goes downhill from there.” —Will Larson, 2008-11-04 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: one-element tuples [Was: Most probably a stupid question, but I still want to ask]

e? I hope that helps to distinguish the different matters that are confusing you. -- \“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a | `\ dotted line. He caught every other fish.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: one-element tuples

as long as | `\ they're exactly like the old ones.” —Charles F. Kettering | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Parens do create a tuple (was: one-element tuples [Was: Most probably a stupid question, but I still want to ask])

nted a literal syntax to create a zero-length tuple. A pair of parens is that literal syntax, and it's the parens that create the (empty) tuple. -- \ “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you | `\ know that you would lie if you were in his place.” —Hen

Re: one-element tuples

d you, I am not saying that this is wrong. I'm just saying that > it surprised me. What behaviour did you expect instead? That's still unclear. Can you show the fictional session that would result from the behaviour you expect? -- \ “Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't | `\ know.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parens do create a tuple

Chris Angelico writes: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > So the expanation that remains true when you examine it is: People > > wanted a literal syntax to create a zero-length tuple. A pair of parens > > is that literal syntax, and it'

Re: one-element tuples

Fillmore writes: > On 04/10/2016 08:31 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Can you describe explicitly what that “discontinuation point” is? I'm > > not seeing it. > > Here you go: > > >>> a = '"string1"' > >>> b = '"string

Re: Parens do create a tuple

some point. Better IMO never to lay that trap. -- \ “It’s a great idea to come in unencumbered by dogma but you | `\can’t also be unencumbered by evidence.” —Darren Saunders, | _o__) 2015-12-02 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parens do create a tuple

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:41 am, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Chris Angelico writes: > > > >> Fair enough. Let's instead say "commas create tuples", which is true > >> in all cases except the singleton empty tupl

Re: one-element tuples

Fillmore writes: > On 04/10/2016 09:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the two examples give you different responses (one surprises you, the > > other does not), I would really like to know*what the surprise is*. > > What specifically did you expect, that did not happen? > &

Re: one-element tuples

c) Isn't that just as surprising as the same expressions evaluated with ‘eval’? If not, that's what is confusing me. I can't see how one would be expected, but the other would be surprising. -- \ “It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one | `\ tri

Please use the Python Job Board for recruitment (was: !! Immediate Position:Technical Consultant at (The Woodlands, TX) !!)

“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure | `\ is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” —Jane | _o__) Wagner, via Lily Tomlin | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Advice on Python build tools

hat it is | `\inappropriate for religion to play any role in issues of state | _o__)[of] a modern democracy.” —Lawrence M. Krauss, 2012-05-28 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

written for people to read, and only | `\incidentally for machines to execute.” —Abelson & Sussman, | _o__) _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

"Martin A. Brown" writes: > The only change from what Ben suggests is that, once I found os.EX_OK, > I just kept on using it, instead of difining my own EXIT_SUCCESS in > every program. Ah, thank you! I was unaware of the exit-status constants in ‘os’:: The following exi

Re: The reason I uninstalled Python 3.5.1 (32-bit) for Windows

t they want and are | `\ willing to go through hell to get it.” —Donald Robert Perry | _o__) Marquis | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.” —Artemus Ward | _o__) (1834–1867), U.S. journalist | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

Dan Sommers writes: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:25:14 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > How can my Python program convert the user's keyboard input to upper > > case, as though the user has CAPS LOCK enabled? > > I don't know which OS you're using, but if I run

Re: Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

nd they think “I know, I'll use | `\ Perl!”. Now they have some number of problems but they're not | _o__) sure whether it's a string or an integer.” —Benno Rice, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

Ben Finney writes: > Okay, ‘termios.tcgetattr’ will let me preserve the attributes, and > with Dan Sommers's suggestion of which attribute to use, I may have a > shot at setting the terminal attributes. This works! I can get the current attributes, and preserve them; then

Re: python3 - No module named 'html5lib'

at leads you to think it is available on your system? -- \“Program testing can be a very effective way to show the | `\presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing | _o__) their absence.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney -- ht

Re: I have been dealing with Python for a few weeks...

od about the language and its community. -- \ “What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but | `\ that He approve ours.” —Helga Bergold Gross | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python

Re: How to parameterize unittests

der inheritance and how the ‘unittest’ API supports it. -- \ “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who | `\ speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney --

Re: sum accuracy

ed might expect exact_sum([0.3, 0.7]) to be 1. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sum accuracy

Oscar Benjamin writes: > On 15 April 2016 at 11:10, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Oscar Benjamin writes: >> >>> On 15 April 2016 at 10:24, Robin Becker wrote: >> >>>> yes indeed summation is hard :( >>> >>> Not with Fraction it isn

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

his own liberty secure must guard even his | `\ enemy from oppression.” —Thomas Paine | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.7

expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and | _o__) happy purchase.” —J. Balguy | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

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Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

chnology of your terminal. It's about the technology of the brain reading the text. -- \“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” —Upton Sinclair | `\ | _o__)

Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

columns, but no other white space. * Oh, come on, no-one would use U+000C FORM FEED in source code. -- \ “The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on | `\ uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral, and | _o__)spiritual health.” —_The Uses Of The Past_, Herbert J. Muller | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:56:10 +1000, Ben Finney > declaimed the following: > > >It seems strange that even the constant for “no error” exit status > >should be defined only for Unix :-/ > > VMS had a whole slew of "no error&qu

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

available on Unix window managers and is still around. I use it on even an up-to-date Linux/Gnome3 system (you set focus follows mouse rather than focus on click). -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

Chris Angelico writes: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Dennis Lee Bieber writes: >> >>> I still miss the Amiga -- in which one could /push/ a window to the >>> back of the stack while still retaining input focus! Made it nice

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

make the design as clear and simple and obviously correct as feasible. -- \ “Welchen Teil von ‘Gestalt’ verstehen Sie nicht? [What part of | `\ ‘gestalt’ don't you understand?]” —Karsten M. Self | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

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Re: Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

because they are ignored.” —Aldous | `\Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

Ben Finney writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Okay, ‘termios.tcgetattr’ will let me preserve the attributes, and > > with Dan Sommers's suggestion of which attribute to use, I may have > > a shot at setting the terminal attributes. > > This works! Except, it

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

ively easy and easily comparable. -- \ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely | `\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” | _o__) —Bill Maher, 2003 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Python packages for hydrology and DEM

earn a living.” | _o__) —Bertrand Russell, _Free Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

ver done | `\for me?” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

e world”. So your claim is false. -- \ “I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I | `\consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no | _o__) superhuman authority behind it.” —Albert Einstein, letter, 1953 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: def __init__(self):

an/listinfo/tutor> which is specially focussed on helping Python beginners. -- \ “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free | `\ than Christianity has made them good.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__)

Re: def __init__(self):

it today. Sure | `\ enough, I couldn't see any forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Immediate Requirement: use the Python Job Board for recruitment (was: !! Immediate Requirement : IBM BPM Technical Lead at Warren, NJ !!)

r that purpose https://www.python.org/jobs/>. -- \ “I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me | `\as members.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- h

Re: How to read from serial port?

then please do that. -- \ “I have one rule to live by: Don't make it worse.” —Hazel | `\ Woodcock | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?

od pro/con discussion of the use case you're trying to address :-) -- \“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance | `\ any day.” —Douglas Adams | _o__)

Pythonic style (was: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?)

Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pythonic style

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Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

’ described at that URL. -- \ “To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is | `\ being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a | _o__)master.” —Richard M. Stallman, 2007-05-16 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

Stephen Hansen writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named > > (not positional) parameters in the format string. […] > > > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#fo

Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

Stephen Hansen writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Everything I described above works fine in Python 2. > > This response is completely unhelpful. I'll let the OP be the judge of that. > The OP is using Python 2, and using %-formatting, and

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