https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a2003bd195738c530e576dcd34c06fa10b6b5be8
commit: a2003bd195738c530e576dcd34c06fa10b6b5be8
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-isling...@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: erlend-aasland <erlend.aasl...@protonmail.com>
date: 2024-06-07T13:53:35Z
summary:
[3.13] gh-110383: Improve 'old string formatting' text in tutorial (GH-120219)
(#120229)
(cherry picked from commit 225aab7f70d804174cc3a75bc04a5bb1545e5adb)
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erl...@python.org>
files:
M Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 857068a51ab843..b93a0e8cec2d38 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -279,9 +279,11 @@ left with zeros. It understands about plus and minus
signs::
Old string formatting
---------------------
-The % operator (modulo) can also be used for string formatting. Given
``'string'
-% values``, instances of ``%`` in ``string`` are replaced with zero or more
-elements of ``values``. This operation is commonly known as string
+The % operator (modulo) can also be used for string formatting.
+Given ``format % values`` (where *format* is a string),
+``%`` conversion specifications in *format* are replaced with
+zero or more elements of *values*.
+This operation is commonly known as string
interpolation. For example::
>>> import math
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