On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:50:59PM +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 03/01/2016 13:12, Alan Gauld wrote:
[snip unnecessary quoting]
> >There are several reasons although your technique is far from
> >the worst way of doing things. And the format string here would probably
> >be better written as:
> >
> >print("You've visited {0} & {2}.".format(island, new))
[...]
> Three reasons for why it's better but it doesn't actually work as given.
Mark, please don't bottom-post. That has all the disadvantages of
top-posting, and none of the advantages. (In other words, it is *worse*
than top-posting.) Instead, you should trim your quoting and post
inline.
> >>> island = "Isle Of Wight"
> >>> new = "Isle of Wong"
> >>> print("You've visited {0} & {2}.".format(island, new))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> IndexError: tuple index out of range
I think that's an obvious typo that should be {1} instead of {2}.
--
Steve
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