"SP" == Simone Piunno <pioppo@ferrara.linux.it> writes:
SP> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:09:04PM +0100, Daniel Buchmann SP> wrote: >> What I'm trying to do in this entry, is to explain to the user >> how to use the variable names. The english text does not have >> that explanation, so that's probably why transcheck reports >> this as an error. But wouldn't a double %-sign tell python (and >> transcheck) that this is not a variable that is to be replaced >> by some value? SP> yes you are right: double-%% means a literal single % (e.g. no SP> interpolation will be done). transcheck should not complain, SP> but it has a very naive parser and I think it's not worth SP> adding complexity. Could you submit a bug report on it in the Mailman project? I agree it's not worth fixing now, but perhaps eventually it will. Thanks, -Barry