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    It is a string formatting syntax (which it borrows from C).

    Please see "PyFormat":

    Python supports formatting values into strings. Although this can include very complicated expressions, the most basic usage is to insert values into a string with the %...

    #Python 2
    name = raw_input("who are you? ")
    print "hello %s" % (name,)

    #Python 3+
    name = input("who are you? ")
    print("hello %s" % (name,))

    The %s token allows me to insert (and potentially format) a string. Notice that the %s token is replaced by whatever I pass to the string after the % symbol. Notic...

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