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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2005-12-26 23:15:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2005-12-26 23:15:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 26c221fe738164de2f05c44806306ce82a65e5d8 (patch) | |
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Bug #839585: mention % string operator in language ref (backport)
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex index 3d30cdc..6e4207f 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex @@ -777,6 +777,12 @@ approximately where \code{x/y} is replaced by \code{floor(x/y)} or * y + x \%{} y} be very close to \code{x}. }. +In addition to performing the modulo operation on numbers, the \code{\%} +operator is also overloaded by string and unicode objects to perform +string formatting (also known as interpolation). The syntax for string +formatting is described in the Python Library Reference, section +``Sequence Types''. + \deprecated{2.3}{The floor division operator, the modulo operator, and the \function{divmod()} function are no longer defined for complex numbers. Instead, convert to a floating point number using the |