Python Madlibs.py code and error message

[Stephen Hansen]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Stephen Hansen <me+python at ixokai.io> writes:
> 
> > The error message means there's a mismatch between the number of
> > formatting instructions (ie, %s) and arguments passed to formatting. I
> > leave it to you to count and find what's missing or extra, because I'm
> > seriously not going to do that :)
> 
> Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named (not
> positional) parameters in the format string.
> 
>     Some simple format string examples:
> 
>     "First, thou shalt count to {0}" # References first positional
>     argument
>     "Bring me a {}"                  # Implicitly references the first
>     positional argument
>     "From {} to {}"                  # Same as "From {0} to {1}"
>     "My quest is {name}"             # References keyword argument 'name'
>     […]
> 
>     <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings>

Except the poster is not using Python 3, so all of this is for naught. 

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Stephen Hansen
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