Printing a percent sign

[Fredrik Lundh]

stephen at theboulets.net wrote:

> Hi all. How do I escape the "%" sign in a print statement so that it
> prints? Thanks.

print doesn't do anything with percent signs:

 >>> print "%"
%

if you're doing string formatting using the "string % tuple" operator, 
use two percent signs to get a percent sign in the output:

 >>> print "%s: %d%%" % ("level", 48)
level: 48%

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