Very stupid question about a % symbol

[Jason Swails]

Ha, I had this same problem, but I was trying to do dynamic formatting:

("%%%s" % format) % number

where "format" is a python-ized fortran format string (i.e. "9.4E").  Looks
kinda weird and less elegant than the {0:{1}}-type .format() syntax, but at
least it preserves backwards compatibility to pythons older than 2.6.
Before I found out how to cancel the %, the statement looked like ("%"+"%s"
% format) % number.  Not much of a change, but still a nice thing to know
since I play with %s a lot.

Thanks! (even though I'm not the original asker)

Jason

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>wrote:

> On 2010-09-16, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance
>
> >>> "Reported memory amounts are within %d%% tolerance" % 10
> 'Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance'
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