[Tutor] string formatting question

[Alan Gauld]

> My problem now is how do I construct the replace
> statement?
> twork = m_sock.sub('\1 %s \2 %s', % port_num % proto,
> twork)

The format operator takes a tuple:

twork = m_sock.sub('\1 %s \2 %s' % (port_num, proto), twork)

So I  removed the comma after the string, used a single percent 
operator and I put the two variables in a tuple

HTH,

Alan G
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