Sometimes, we want to selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings.
In this article, we’ll look at how to selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings.
How to selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings?
To selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings, we put % before the % sign to escape it.
For instance, we write
elective_escape = "Print percent %% in sentence and not %s" % test
to escape the first % with %%.
Then we print the string, one % will be printed.
Conclusion
To selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings, we put % before the % sign to escape it.