Rob Williscroft wrote in news:Xns9849DC7DB4102rtwfreenetREMOVEcouk@ 216.196.109.145 in comp.lang.python:
> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in > comp.lang.python: > >> Hi all. How do I escape the "%" sign in a print statement so that it >> prints? Thanks. >> > > print "%%" > Ok, confused by the simplicity of the question. Real answer is: print "%" But the real question was "how to print a % whern doing % formating", acuracy = 100 print "this is %d%% more acurate than my previous answer" % acuracy Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list