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Thanks, I appreciate it. I think I got a little over-zealous in escaping my %s. Interestingly, in Python, "%%%s" % "foo" != "%%foo"

• lacker 18y ago
  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 18y ago
    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.