[Tutor] Why has this syntax with multiple arguments ceased to work for the print command?

[Terry Carroll]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, hcohen2 wrote:

> I am certain code like this ran for me without any problem:
> 
> print 'You are: %s? and It is the %dth of Dec.' % esp, int(cnt)

There should be *one* argument on each side of the "%"; although the 
rightmost one can be a tuple that contains two elements.

Try, instead:

  print 'You are: %s? and It is the %dth of Dec.' % (esp, int(cnt))

> It appears that the syntax has altered from what was working on version
> 2.0.x.

I don't think so; the first fails with the same error for me on Pythons 
1.5.2, 2.2.2 and 2.3.3; and the second works correctly on all three.


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Terry Carroll
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