[issue8359] % formating - TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

[عبدالله شلي (Abdellah Chelli)]

New submission from عبدالله شلي (Abdellah Chelli) <sneetsher at gmail.com>:

c/printf accepts this:

n=1;
printf("One hour.", n);

in other hand python/print rises an error:

n=1
print "One hour." % n

Exactly the % formatting operation.
(TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting)

This feature is very important when we come to I18n (translation using gettext).

As most translator don't know this work around "%i hour." or "(%i) One hour.". This is not correct for many languages as I know like Arabic where they should write some thing like "One hour." or "An hour.".

https://bugs.launchpad.net/python/+bug/341015

Could this fixed to have same behaviour as in c? More robust.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 102764
nosy: sneetsher
severity: normal
status: open
title: % formating - TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.1

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