Actually, I think that was the complete code... give it a try...
"{:02}".format("1")
produces the error listed.
I agree the error is not very clear, since the "=" was not passed, it seems
like an incorrect error. What about something like:
"ValueError: '=' and '0' padding are not allowed in string format specifiers"
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> can you show the complete code? It doesn't start with "{:02} I don't think
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:34 PM, the.gerenuk--- via Python-list < python-
> l...@python.org> wrote:
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> > The following error message, makes it a bit hard to understand what
> > went wrong
> >
> > >>> "{:02}".format("1")
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > ValueError: '=' alignment not allowed in string format specifier
> >
> > (this can happen easily if you read in text files and forget to
> > convert)
> >
> > Do you think some better error message should be used?
> >
> > For example a hint that "0" does work for the given argument.
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