Very Easy question concerning input

[Fredrik Lundh]

> can someone tell me how to use a variable from a previous line and get a
> variable from the currentline using raw_input, for example
> 
> I am trying to make a simple program that ask the user his name then says
> "welcome (name) would you like to do something"
> 
> I tried this...but it doesn't work right...
> 
> name=raw_input ("What is your name?")
> choice1=raw_input "welcome, %s, would you like to do something?" % name
>
> doing this displays a %s instead of the persons name

really?  I get a syntax error:

  File "sample", line 2
    choice1=raw_input "welcome, %s, would you like to do something?" % name
                                                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

> can you tell me how to fix this?

just add parentheses:

choice1 = raw_input("welcome, %s, would you like to do something?" % name)

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