From 07c4c8e6b45b1b0ed50913bcaf9bc7dcea883177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Erlend E. Aasland" Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 15:37:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gh-110383: Improve 'old string formatting' text in tutorial (GH-120219) (cherry picked from commit 225aab7f70d804174cc3a75bc04a5bb1545e5adb) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland --- Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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