Can anyone offer a suggestion?

[Emile van Sebille]

Not that anyone cares, but I think I've figured out that what's going on is
that the '*' is sometimes trying to act on the string and that properly
formatting the argument as a single tuple fixes the problem.  I'm still not
sure why it sometimes appears to accept non-parenthetical '*'d arguments,
but I'm guessing it's got something to do with coercion, and that's a
problem for another day.

Thanks for listening and have a nice day... ;-)


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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
news:9ikhp6$jivuc$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de...
> I found it in the source (I think), in stringobject.c there's a
formatfloat
> routine that looks like it requires a float.  If this is the right
routine,
> I'm still stumped.
>
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> Emile van Sebille
> emile at fenx.com
>