type("%")

related to question https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/101782

I will report a bug.

use paste() instead of type().

This works perfectly for putting something into input fields (like the browser address field) that have the focus.

The single percent is interpreted as the formatting operator (don't ask me why in this case). The python way to escape the % is to use %% for one. this works (no error) but it types %% instead of %. The traceback shows, that the error starts with the Sikuli type module. may be the wrong java functions are used.

x="%%%s" % "abc%3D" # use of the formatting operator
print x # works: %abc%3D
type(x) # error
paste(x) # works too

its weird, because this means, the string given to type() containing a % is interpreted as as a formatting string, without the %-operator being there.