String handling and the percent operator

[Tom Plunket]

Justin  Azoff wrote:

> Of course..
> 
> I should read the python documentation at
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

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...
-tom!