Struggling with basics

[Peter]

Duncan Booth wrote:

>Jason wrote:
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>>My first problem (lack of understanding of course) is that if I run the 
>>above, I get an error saying:
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>>     print "%s - %s" % name,score
>>TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>>
>>Now I understand what it's saying, but I don't understand why.
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>The problem is precedence.
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>      print "%s - %s" % name,score
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>is equivalent to:
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>      print ("%s - %s" % name),score
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>not:
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>      print "%s - %s" % (name,score)
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>The % operator binds more tightly than the comma, so you need to put 
>parentheses around the argument to % (as in the last line above).
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Well said. :)

- Peter