[Python-Dev] possible string formatting bug

[Steve Holden]

Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2007/10/8, Eli Courtwright <eli at courtwright.org>:
> 
>> On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
>> (Intel)] on win32" this produces the following exception:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
> 
> Please check it again, because in my machine...
> 
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
>>>> "%%(%s)=%%s" % "hello"
> '%(hello)=%s'
> 
> If you still think that something is wrong somewhere, feel free to
> post a bug in the tracker:
> 
>   http://bugs.python.org/
> 
It even works on my Cygwin build:

$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43)
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> "%%(%s)=%%s" % "hello"
'%(hello)=%s'
 >>>

I suspect the problem may lie somewhere else.

regards
  Steve
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