String handling and the percent operator

[Erik Max Francis]

Tom Plunket wrote:

> I know that the message didn't have enough formatters, that's why I
> asked.  (Although I would have assumed that the generator would get
> automatically converted to a sequence that was consumable by the
> interpolation operator...)

That's because::

	aFormatString % anObject

is a shortcut for::

	aFormatString % (anObject,)

so things like::

	print "Your birthday is on %s" % date

are allowed.  So when the object is an iterator, it's just treated as a 
single value in a 1-tuple, rather than iterated over to get its own tuple.

-- 
Erik Max Francis && max at alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/
  San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis
   Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
    -- Sigmund Freud