Format strings that contain '%'

[Erik Max Francis]

rick_muller at yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm trying to do something along the lines of
> 
>>>> print '%temp %d' % 1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: unsupported format character 't' (0x74) at index 1

Use %%:

 >>> '%%temp %d' % 1
'%temp 1'

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