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		witten on July 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request Thanks, I appreciate it. I think I got a little over-zealous in escaping my %s. Interestingly, in Python, "%%%s" % "foo" != "%%foo"

lacker on July 28, 2008 [–]

It works just like \ in standard unix parsing - you escape the escape character by doubling it. So in "%%%s":

  "%%" -> "%"
  "%s" -> "foo"

for a result of "%foo".

witten on July 28, 2008 | [–]

Right, but the escaping by doubling does not work in Python unless it's in a format string. So "%%foo" does not count as escaped. That's what threw me off.

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