Simple formatting string question

[Alex]

> I'm trying to print something like this:
> 
> >>> print 6*'%2i' '%1i' % tuple([5,5,5,5,5,5,1])
> 
> but I'm getting an error.

This works:

print (6 * ('%2i') + '%1i') % tuple([5,5,5,5,5,5,1])

It's all a matter of operator precedence. :)

Alex.