formating a string and pass it to an URL in python

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How can i append two different strings variable in a url. But this is not accepting

def get_customer_action_by_target_group(self):
       payload = {"TargetGroupID": "%s" % self.TargetGroupID, 
       "Date":"%s" % self.date,
                }

    if not self.TargetGroupID or not self.date:
        get_target_group_id = int(raw_input("Please provide the target Group id:"))
        get_date = (raw_input("Please provide the date as required:"))
        self.TargetGroupID = get_target_group_id
        self.date = get_date
    response = self.send_request(self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url % self.TargetGroupID %
                                 self.date,
                                 json.dumps(payload),
                                 "GET")

    print response, response.text, response.reason

    return response

get_customer_action_by_target_group_url is the method itself, it doesn't make sense to try and treat it as a string. — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 13:36
No it not the method .. it is just the variable itself, the url variable — Patcho
– Patcho, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 13:44

Błotosmętek · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-20 13:32:08Z

1

This expression:

self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url % self.TargetGroupID % self.date

is incorrect; assuming self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url is a format string containing %s exactly twice, you should use a two-element tuple for the right-side argument to the % operator:

self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url % (self.TargetGroupID, self.date)

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 13:32

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Patcho Over a year ago

Cool. but i'm receiving it this -> TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

Błotosmętek Over a year ago

Well, what is the value of self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url?

Patcho Over a year ago

get_customer_action_by_target_group_url = 'api4.optimove.net/current/customers/…'

Patcho Over a year ago

bascially this variable contains an URL. So self.get_customer_action_by_target_group_url . contains get_customer_action_by_target_group_url = 'api4.optimove.net/current/customers/…'

Błotosmętek Over a year ago

As I said earlier, this string must contain %s in places where you want to insert values of self.TargetGroupID and self.date…

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