In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Machin wrote: > 1. Reasoning: How do you get a literal "'" into an SQL string constant? > How do you get a literal "\" into a Python string constant? How do you > get a literal "$" into some *x shell command lines? Do you detect a > pattern?
None of which applies to escaping of % characters in format strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
