✘Python broken %

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo All!

Yet another undocumented Python failure:

i>>> d = {}
>>> d[1] = "one"
>>> d[2] = "two"
>>> str(d[2])
'two'
>>> echo "%s(d[2])s" % locals
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    echo "%s(d[2])s" % locals
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Python says %s(x)s works for any x that str(x) works.

Here is the Python doc:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting

"'s' 	String (converts any Python object using str())."

WRONG!

RGDS
GARY
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