[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-735276 ] tuple.__mul__ won't work with string format

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Bugs item #735276, was opened at 2003-05-09 16:09
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.1.1
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Clark Updike (cupdike)
>Assigned to: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Summary: tuple.__mul__ won't work with string format

Initial Comment:
Tuple multiplication doesn't feed string format properly.

Python 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 20 2001, 01:19:29) [MSC 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
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>>> '%s%s' % ('x','x')
'xx'
>>> ('x',)*2 == ('x','x')
1
>>> '%s%s' % ('x',)*2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>>> '%s%s' % tuple(('x',)*2)
'xx'
>>>

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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2003-05-09 16:20

Message:
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* and % have the same precedence and associate to the left:

>>> '%s%s' % (('x',)*2 )
'xx'

(there's a rant in here about overloading operators, but
I'll save that for another time...)

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