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It is, as you said, an operator so it doesn't make any sense to place a comma somewhere between the operator and the two operands. The first operand is the template string, and the second operand ...
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__blackjack__
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2023-02-27T16:05:49Z (almost 2 years ago)
- It is, as you said, an *operator* so it doesn't make any sense to place a comma somewhere between the operator and the two operands. The first operand is the template string, and the second operand is the tuple with the values to format into the template string. The `print()` function gets *one* argument — the result of the formatting operation.
Maybe it helps to bind the both operands to names, so the expression becomes a bit simpler:- ```python
- animal = "giraffe"
- age = 25
- template = "A %s can live up to %d years"
- values = (animal, age)
- print(template % values)
- ```
- The `%` operator is syntactically no different than other binary operators like `+` or `/` and so on.
- It is, as you said, an *operator* so it doesn't make any sense to place a comma somewhere between the operator and the two operands. The first operand is the template string, and the second operand is the tuple with the values to format into the template string. The `print()` function gets *one* argument — the result of the formatting operation.
- Maybe it helps to bind both operands to names, so the expression becomes a bit simpler:
- ```python
- animal = "giraffe"
- age = 25
- template = "A %s can live up to %d years"
- values = (animal, age)
- print(template % values)
- ```
- The `%` operator is syntactically no different than other binary operators like `+` or `/` and so on.
#1: Initial revision
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__blackjack__
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2023-02-27T16:05:16Z (almost 2 years ago)
It is, as you said, an *operator* so it doesn't make any sense to place a comma somewhere between the operator and the two operands. The first operand is the template string, and the second operand is the tuple with the values to format into the template string. The `print()` function gets *one* argument — the result of the formatting operation. Maybe it helps to bind the both operands to names, so the expression becomes a bit simpler: ```python animal = "giraffe" age = 25 template = "A %s can live up to %d years" values = (animal, age) print(template % values) ``` The `%` operator is syntactically no different than other binary operators like `+` or `/` and so on.