Printing tuple with string formatting in Python

Question

So, i have this problem. I got tuple (1,2,3) which i should print with string formatting. eg.

tup = (1,2,3)
print \"this is a tuple %something\" % (tup)
         


        

Answer 1

Try this to get an answer:

>>>d = ('1', '2') 
>>> print("Value: %s" %(d))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

If we put only-one tuple inside (), it makes a tuple itself:

>>> (d)
('1', '2')

This means the above print statement will look like: print("Value: %s" %('1', '2')) which is an error!

Hence:

>>> (d,)
(('1', '2'),)
>>> 

Above will be fed correctly to the print's arguments.