Re: Struggling with basics

Jason wrote:

> My first problem (lack of understanding of course) is that if I run the
> above, I get an error saying:
>
> print "%s - %s" % name,score
> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>
> Now I understand what it's saying, but I don't understand why.
>

The problem is precedence.

print "%s - %s" % name,score

is equivalent to:

print ("%s - %s" % name),score

not:

print "%s - %s" % (name,score)

The % operator binds more tightly than the comma, so you need to put
parentheses around the argument to % (as in the last line above).
.

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