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katzrkool
katzrkool

Reputation: 123

Formatting strings (%s) returns TypeError: a float is required

I'm trying to insert text into a large url with %s. Whenever I run it, I get the error: TypeError: a float is required which seems silly because I'm putting strings into strings and no floats or integers are involved. Any help would be awesome! My code is below

import datetime

date = (datetime.datetime.today().date() - datetime.timedelta(days=100)).strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
date = str(date)
date = date.replace("/","%2F")

def genUrl(account, date, lastName, firstName):
    url = "https://arpmp-ph.hidinc.com/arappl/bdarpdmq/pmqadhocrpt.html?a=&page=recipqry&disp-bdate=%s&disp-edate=%s&recip-list=02685245&output=web&dt-sort-by=rcpdt&mode=Recipient_Query&w_method=POST&suplist=BM0650386&base-prsb=0&base-phrm=0&base-recip=1&tot-recip=1&report=PHY&recip-sex=A&recip-dob=01%2F21%2F1964&account-id=%s&date=%s&dob-days=0&recip-name=%s&recip-fname=%s&enum-read-cnt=2&enum-keep-cnt=1&etime=5&pagename=pmqrecipqry&pdmdir=arpdm&pdmstate=ar&scriptname=%2Farappl%2Fbdarpdmq&exprecip=yes" %(date, str(datetime.datetime.now()), account, date, lastName, firstName)
    print(url)

genUrl("example",date, "Smith", "Jogn")

Sorry if I just made a stupid mistake and didn't notice it. I'm relatively new to Python

Upvotes: 1

Views: 702

Answers (1)

schollz
schollz

Reputation: 178

Its because you are replacing "/" with "%2F" which is the Python placeholder for floats.

Use .format() instead of %:

import datetime

date = (datetime.datetime.today().date() - datetime.timedelta(days=100)).strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
date = str(date)
date = date.replace("/","%2F")

def genUrl(account, date, lastName, firstName):
    url = "https://arpmp-ph.hidinc.com/arappl/bdarpdmq/pmqadhocrpt.html?a=&page=recipqry&disp-bdate={}&disp-edate={}&recip-list=02685245&output=web&dt-sort-by=rcpdt&mode=Recipient_Query&w_method=POST&suplist=BM0650386&base-prsb=0&base-phrm=0&base-recip=1&tot-recip=1&report=PHY&recip-sex=A&recip-dob=01%2F21%2F1964&account-id={}&date={}&dob-days=0&recip-name={}&recip-fname={}&enum-read-cnt=2&enum-keep-cnt=1&etime=5&pagename=pmqrecipqry&pdmdir=arpdm&pdmstate=ar&scriptname=%2Farappl%2Fbdarpdmq&exprecip=yes".format(date, str(datetime.datetime.now()), account, date, lastName, firstName)
    print(url)

genUrl("example",date, "Smith", "Jogn")

Upvotes: 6

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