[Tutor] trying to figure out what this means

[Alan Gauld]

"Dave C" <wheresdave at gmail.com> wrote

> when you are doing print these two characters keep showing up in 
> this book
> "%s" %
>
> What do they do?

Its called string formatting.
%s means insert a string(the s) here.
%d means insert a decimal number(the d) here
There are a whole bunch of other codes and you can add extra
fomatting info too(width, justification etc).

This is covered in the Simple Sequences topic of my tutorial.


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