text: teste = "este e o teste %s"
  string = "de uma string"
  
  print teste %string
  
  print "Mary had a little lamb."
  print "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow' 
  print "And everywhere that Mary went." 
  print "." * 10 # what'd that do? 
  end1 = "C" 
  end2 = "h" 
  end3 = "e" 
  end4 = "e" 
  end5 = "s" 
  end6 = "e" 
  end7 = "B" 
  end8 = "u" 
  end9 = "r" 
  end10 = "g" 
  end11 = "e" 
  end12 = "r" 
  
  # watch that comma at the end. try removing it to see what happens
  print end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6 
  print end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12
  
  formatter = "%r %r %r %r" 
  print formatter % (1, 2, 3, 4) 
  print formatter % ("one", "two", "three", "four") 
  print formatter % (True, False, False, True) 
  print formatter % (formatter, formatter, formatter, formatter) 
  print formatter % ( "I had this thing.",
      "That you could type up right.",
  	   "But it didn't sing.", 
  	   "So I said goodnight." )
  
  print #comentario intrometido
  
  print """outro 
  comentario 
  intrometido
  """
  
  while True:
  for i in ["/","-","|","\\","|"]:
  print "%s\r" %i