title: having @ char in a string in python
body: <p>Am generating dummy email address for testing purpose, and so wanted the following code to work</p>
  
  <pre><code>return "test_%@test.tm"% counter();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but its not working, seems some special things about @, not able to have <code>@</code> in string.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT</p>
  
  <p>Could somebody please tell me why output has no 'email' attribute/key present here with this example - <a href="https://gist.github.com/4505055" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/4505055</a></p>
  
  <p>btw Am new to python</p>
  
  <p>EDIT</p>
  
  <p>my mistake, email attr was missing, sorry :(</p>