On 17 September 2010 12:48, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Doubling an escape char, whatever it is, is a common convention:
> >>> print("Print a {{}} format string line this: {{{}}}".format(2))
> Print a {} format string line this: {2}
>
Wow. That's convoluted. Took me a minute to process.
Cheers,
Xav
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:25:06 -0400, J wrote:
> OK, this is a very stupid question about a very simple topic, but Google
> is failing me this morning...
[...]
Others have already answered your question, but for future reference,
many people won't bother to read posts with a meaningless subject li
On 9/16/2010 12:23 PM, J wrote:
Thanks for the replies... I KNEW there was a simple way to escape the
% but I had no idea what it was (I just had conviction).
I was thrown when the \ didn't escape it... never knew about %%. But
now I do! Thanks for the replies!
Doubling an escape char, what
Ha, I had this same problem, but I was trying to do dynamic formatting:
("%%%s" % format) % number
where "format" is a python-ized fortran format string (i.e. "9.4E"). Looks
kinda weird and less elegant than the {0:{1}}-type .format() syntax, but at
least it preserves backwards compatibility to
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:09, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-09-16, J wrote:
>
>> Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance
>
"Reported memory amounts are within %d%% tolerance" % 10
> 'Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance'
Thanks for the replies... I KNEW there was a si
On 09/16/10 10:25, J wrote:
OK, this is a very stupid question about a very simple topic, but
print "Reported memory amounts are within %s%s tolerance" %
(self.mem_tolerance,'%')
Is there a better way to print a '%' in the string when also using formating?
I've tried things like this:
print "b
On 2010-09-16, J wrote:
> Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance
>>> "Reported memory amounts are within %d%% tolerance" % 10
'Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance'
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On 17 September 2010 01:25, J wrote:
> Is there a better way to print a '%' in the string when also using
> formating?
>
I believe %% will escape the % and prints it straight out.
Cheers,
Xav
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OK, this is a very stupid question about a very simple topic, but
Google is failing me this morning...
I'm trying to print a string that looks like this:
Reported memory amounts are within 10% tolerance
and the print line looks (for now) like this:
print "Reported memory amounts are within %s%s
