Python Madlibs.py code and error message

Thu Apr 28 02:50:46 EDT 2016

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Stephen Hansen <me+python at ixokai.io> writes:
>> > The error message means there's a mismatch between the number of
> > formatting instructions (ie, %s) and arguments passed to formatting. I
> > leave it to you to count and find what's missing or extra, because I'm
> > seriously not going to do that :)
>> Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named (not
> positional) parameters in the format string.
>> Some simple format string examples:
>> "First, thou shalt count to {0}" # References first positional
> argument
> "Bring me a {}" # Implicitly references the first
> positional argument
> "From {} to {}" # Same as "From {0} to {1}"
> "My quest is {name}" # References keyword argument 'name'
> […]
>> <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings>

Except the poster is not using Python 3, so all of this is for naught. 
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Stephen Hansen
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