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Tue Apr 3 20:37:16 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/112420.html

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, Ram Bhamidipaty wrote:
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>Does anyone else think it would be a good idea of the % operator
>were extended to also handle lists?
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>-Ram

You want as few types as possible to be treated as containers for the
data to be formatted, because you have a problem formatting an object
of those types.

For example, if you want to print the tuple (1,2), you can't use
    print '%s' % (1,2)
Instead, you have to do something like
    print '%s' % `(1,2)`
Making % treat lists as tuples would just mean there were more objects
that can't be formatted.

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why does the % string format operator only take tuples?