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Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word

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"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165.
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
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@ -681,20 +681,24 @@ Return a copy of the string converted to uppercase.
\subsubsection{String Formatting Operations \label{typesseq-strings}}
\index{formatting, string (\%{})}
\index{interpolation, string (\%{})}
\index{string!formatting}
\index{string!interpolation}
\index{printf-style formatting}
\index{sprintf-style formatting}
\index{\protect\%{} formatting}
\index{\protect\%{} interpolation}
String and Unicode objects have one unique built-in operation: the
\code{\%} operator (modulo). Given \code{\var{format} \%
\var{values}} (where \var{format} is a string or Unicode object),
\code{\%} conversion specifications in \var{format} are replaced with
zero or more elements of \var{values}. The effect is similar to the
using \cfunction{sprintf()} in the C language. If \var{format} is a
Unicode object, or if any of the objects being converted using the
\code{\%s} conversion are Unicode objects, the result will be a
Unicode object as well.
\code{\%} operator (modulo). This is also known as the string
\emph{formatting} or \emph{interpolation} operator. Given
\code{\var{format} \% \var{values}} (where \var{format} is a string or
Unicode object), \code{\%} conversion specifications in \var{format}
are replaced with zero or more elements of \var{values}. The effect
is similar to the using \cfunction{sprintf()} in the C language. If
\var{format} is a Unicode object, or if any of the objects being
converted using the \code{\%s} conversion are Unicode objects, the
result will be a Unicode object as well.
If \var{format} requires a single argument, \var{values} may be a
single non-tuple object. \footnote{A tuple object in this case should