How do you escape % when formatting a string?

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On Apr 2, 10:50 pm, "erikcw" <erikwickst... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to format a string like so:
>
> string = "You have a 75% chance of success with %s, don't use %s" %(a,
> b)
>
> This gives me:
> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>
> I've tried 75\%, but that doesn't seem to help.  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Erik

Use %%.

>>> "%d%%" % 75
"75"