How do you escape % when formatting a string?

[erikcw]

Hi,

I'm trying to format a string like so:

string = "You have a 75% chance of success with %s, don't use %s" %(a,
b)

This gives me:
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

I've tried 75\%, but that doesn't seem to help. What am I missing?

Thanks!
Erik

[irstas@gmail.com]

Re: How do you escape % when formatting a string?

On Apr 2, 10:50 pm, "erikcw" <erikwickst...@ gmail.comwrote:

Hi,
>
I'm trying to format a string like so:
>
string = "You have a 75% chance of success with %s, don't use %s" %(a,
b)
>
This gives me:
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>
I've tried 75\%, but that doesn't seem to help. What am I missing?
>
Thanks!
Erik

Use %%.

>>"%d%%" % 75

"75"

[irstas@gmail.com]

Re: How do you escape % when formatting a string?

On Apr 2, 10:52 pm, irs...@gmail.co m wrote:

On Apr 2, 10:50 pm, "erikcw" <erikwickst...@ gmail.comwrote:
>

Hi,

>

I'm trying to format a string like so:

>

string = "You have a 75% chance of success with %s, don't use %s" %(a,
b)

>

This gives me:
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

>

I've tried 75\%, but that doesn't seem to help. What am I missing?

>

Thanks!
Erik

>
Use %%.
>

>"%d%%" % 75

>
"75"

Oups, I made a typo in the result which should've been "75%"

[Terry Reedy]

Re: How do you escape % when formatting a string?


"erikcw" <erikwickstrom@ gmail.comwrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| I'm trying to format a string like so:
|
| string = "You have a 75% chance of success with %s, don't use %s" %(a,
| b)
|
| This gives me:
| TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
|
| I've tried 75\%, but that doesn't seem to help. What am I missing?

The reference manual?