String handling and the percent operator

[Erik Max Francis]

Tom Plunket wrote:

> Excellent.  Thanks.  Has this been around long?  I "learned" Python in
> the 1.6 days iirc, but haven't done much except simple scripting with
> it since...

Yep.  Been around since at least 1.5.x.

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