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gh-110383: Improve 'old string formatting' text in tutorial (GH-120219) 
(cherry picked from commit 225aab7)

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
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Expand Up @@ -279,9 +279,11 @@ left with zeros. It understands about plus and minus signs::
Old string formatting
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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
The % operator (modulo) can also be used for string formatting.
Given ``format % values`` (where *format* is a string),
``%`` conversion specifications in *format* are replaced with
zero or more elements of *values*.
This operation is commonly known as string
interpolation. For example::

>>> import math
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