The following reply was made to PR pkg/34217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34217: lang/python23 and lang/python24 fails to build on
    Sparc Solaris 10
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:38:10 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:35:02PM +0000, Raymond Meyer wrote:
 >  Well I could live without Python being built with '-xbuiltin=%all' flag, but
 >  the most interesting question is: is it a bug that Python can't handle strings
 >  with '%' char? I think it is a bug, there has to be a way to print strings that
 >  contain such special chars.
 
 No, it is expected behaviour. foo % arg with foo as string is evaluated
 like sprintf in C, so any % in foo has to be quoted as %%.
 
 Joerg