Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > 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.
Its the pattern of escaping here, and yes, it applies: usually, a escaping character can be literally inserted by doubling it. I'm currently a bit unsure of the single-quote for sql though, but I'm oscillating between '' or '''. So - it applies. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
