venture of iit bombay vjti alumni " ,which precedes the quotation marks the " \ can be lowercase (ror uppercase (rand must be placed immediately preceding the first quote mark format performs string formatting see at next section string formatting operator one of python' coolest features is the string format operator this operator is unique to strings and makes up for the pack of having functions from ' printf(family following is simple example #!/usr/bin/python print "my name is % and weight is % kg!('zara' when the above code is executedit produces the following result my name is zara and weight is kg