Can you escape a % in string that will used for substitution

[Gerard Brunick]

Is there a way to do:

s = "I like python %i%s of the time."
print s % (99, "%")

without having to pass in "%"?

Thanks,
Gerard

 

[Daniel Lenski]

Is there a way to do:

s = "I like python %i%s of the time." print s % (99, "%")

without having to pass in "%"?

Thanks,
Gerard

Just double-up the % sign, e.g. "I like python %i%% of the time."