On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > In financial circles it could be an operator for calculating > percentages, eg. "5 % x" would be 5 percent of x. > > It's an oddity, but an established one. :-)
And I would be most sorry to see % renamed to mod in Python.
"Hello, %s! My favourite number is %d." mod ("Fred",42) # This just
looks wrong.
ChrisA
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