Greetings, I've found what might be a bug in Python's % string formatting operator. Consider the following code:
"%%(%s)=%%s" % "hello" On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin" this produces the string "%(hello)s=%s" which is what I'd expect. On "Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32" this produces the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Note that this is the exact same revision running on the same machine, but it doesn't work for the win32 version and does work for the cygwin version. I wish I had time to track down the source of the problem and submit a patch. But unfortunately I need to get back to work, and I won't even have the free time after work to tackle this. So I figured I'd kick it off to the Python Dev list in case anyone deems this important enough to be worth their time. By the way, Python is my favorite language and I use it whenever possible and have even gotten some co-workers to start using it. Thanks for the great language! - Eli
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