% sign in python?

[Tim Roberts]

Steven Howe <howe.steven at gmail.com> wrote:

>Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>> korean_dave wrote:
>>> What does this operator do? Specifically in this context
>>>
>>> test.log( "[[Log level %d: %s]]" % ( level, msg ), description )
>
>I thought, in this contexted, it was  mapping operator.

What??

Python does not have a "mapping operator".  It has a "map" function, but no
equivalent operator.

% is either the string formatting operator (when the left-hand operand is a
string) or the modulo operator (when the left-hand operand is a number).
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