[Tutor] The % operator

[Gregor Lingl]

Bernard Lebel schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> I have been reading many examples where the % operator is used, and I 
> know I have read in the docs its meaning. However I can't seem to be 
> able to retrieve it, and a search doesn't return interesting results.
> So I'm turning to you, honorable people: could someone be kind to 
> explain to me what is doing the % operator, how it works, or at least 
> point me to the appropriate page in the Python documentation?
>
There are two % operators in Python.
One for numeric types:
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesnumeric.html

the other one for string formatting:
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

Regards, Gregor

>
> Thank you
> Bernard
>
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