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With the default cube mesh and Blender 2.77, if I run this code in console:

for f in bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].polygons:
    for v in f.vertices:
        print("%f %f %f" % bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[:])
        print("%f %f %f" % f.normal[:])
    print("\n")

I get the following output (truncated for brevity):

-1.000000 -1.000000 1.000000
-1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
-1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
-1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
-1.000000 1.000000 -1.000000
-1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
-1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000
-1.000000 0.000000 0.000000


-1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
0.000000 1.000000 -0.000000
...

However, with this:

for f in bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].polygons:
    for v in f.vertices:
        print("%f %f %f %f %f %f\n" % bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[:], f.normal[:])
    print("\n")

or even this:

for f in bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].polygons:
    for v in f.vertices:
        print("%f %f %f %f %f %f" % bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[0], py.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[1], py.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[2], f.normal[0], f.normal[1], f.normal[2])
    print("\n")

I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<blender_console>", line 3, in <module>
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

Why can I print 3 floats easily but printing 6 floats doesn't work? Is Python's formatted printing different that C's (in this respect)? Or is it something Blender specific? Is there a maximum limit on how many 'arguments' the format string can take?

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  • $\begingroup$ print( "%f, %f" % (1, 2) ) , more information here stackoverflow.com/questions/15286401/… $\endgroup$ – lemon Sep 4 '16 at 6:30
  • $\begingroup$ @lemon Putting all the floats in a list works for program 3, but it is tedious to type. Is there any way to make it work for program 2 (with two separate lists)? $\endgroup$ – strNOcat Sep 4 '16 at 6:35
  • $\begingroup$ Have a look here stackoverflow.com/questions/455612/… and combine format function as you need $\endgroup$ – lemon Sep 4 '16 at 6:51
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    $\begingroup$ You can also change the end character of print from its default "\n" (carriage return) with print(str, end=",") for example. Something like cube = bpy.data.meshes.get("Cube") and for v in cube.vertices: would make the code a whole lot more readable... and also I vote to close this q as it is not really about blender python or the console, rather a syntax error. $\endgroup$ – batFINGER Sep 4 '16 at 7:59
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    $\begingroup$ I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is primarily about python. $\endgroup$ – batFINGER Sep 4 '16 at 8:01
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In python the string formatting operation ('%') accepts a single argument and in your first (working) example that's exactly what you've got as it's a single element with 3 components. in your other (not working) examples you're trying to pass multiple values to '%', each containing 3 values. Your solution is to simply combine them into a single tuple by appending them with the '+' operator :

for f in bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].polygons:
    for v in f.vertices:
        print("%f %f %f %f %f %f\n" % (bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].vertices[v].co[:] + f.normal[:]))
    print("\n")
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  • $\begingroup$ This doesn't work directly (same error), but putting a parenthesis around the entire second argument (list1 + list2) makes it work. I can't edit it because SE wants me to edit more that 6 characters $\endgroup$ – strNOcat Sep 4 '16 at 6:53

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