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Can you escape a % in string that will used for substitution

Is there a way to do:

s = "I like python %i%s of the time."
print s % (99, "%")

without having to pass in "%"?

Thanks,
Gerard
Oct 18 '07 #1
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:21:41 -0400, Gerard Brunick wrote:
Is there a way to do:

s = "I like python %i%s of the time." print s % (99, "%")

without having to pass in "%"?

Thanks,
Gerard
Just double-up the % sign, e.g. "I like python %i%% of the time."

Oct 22 '07 #2

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