Fix for SPACK-50

Bad format string in version check.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack
index 9fbb65f349..b345a5079d 100755
--- a/bin/spack
+++ b/bin/spack
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 ##############################################################################
 import sys
 if not sys.version_info[:2] >= (2,6):
-    sys.exit("Spack requires Python 2.6.  Version was %s." % sys.version_info)
+    v_info = sys.version_info[:3]
+    sys.exit("Spack requires Python 2.6 or higher.  This is Python %d.%d.%d." % v_info)
 
 import os