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[3.7] Improve IO tutorial's "Old string formatting" section (GH-16251) #20476

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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
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Expand Up @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined::
If you have a really long format string that you don't want to split up, it
would be nice if you could reference the variables to be formatted by name
instead of by position. This can be done by simply passing the dict and using
square brackets ``'[]'`` to access the keys ::
square brackets ``'[]'`` to access the keys. ::

>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 8637678}
>>> print('Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; '
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Old string formatting
---------------------

The ``%`` operator can also be used for string formatting. It interprets the
left argument much like a :c:func:`sprintf`\ -style format string to be applied
to the right argument, and returns the string resulting from this formatting
operation. For example::
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
interpolation. For example::

>>> import math
>>> print('The value of pi is approximately %5.3f.' % math.pi)
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