On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Eli Courtwright wrote: > > 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.
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