format requires a mapping?

[ronrsr]

what is python trying to tell me here? does it have to do with
formatting the string.

Keywords and Zinger are fields in my database.

print """<tr>
<td class="padplace" width="120">Keywords</td>
<td class="padplace" idth="660">Zinger</td><td>

TypeError: format requires a mapping


thanks much in advance,

-rsr-

[Fredrik Lundh]

ronrsr wrote:

what is python trying to tell me here? does it have to do with
formatting the string.

Keywords and Zinger are fields in my database.

print """<tr>
<td class="padplace" width="120">Keywords</td>
<td class="padplace" idth="660">Zinger</td><td>

TypeError: format requires a mapping

portions of your code and the traceback appears to be missing, so it's a
bit hard to tell what you're really doing here, but that error message
usually means that you're using the % string formatting operator with
named placeholders in the string template, but with something that's not
a dictionary as the data. an example:

>>"%(name)s" % 10

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: format requires a mapping

either switch to positional markers, or put the data in a dictionary (or
any other object that implements the mapping interface).

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