# Compute the cost of an item, plus sales tax # Demonstrate need for/use of format specifiers # by Sara Sprenkle # SALES_TAX=.05 # the sales tax in VA value = input("How much does your item cost? ") with_tax = value * (1+SALES_TAX) print "Your item that cost $%.2f" % value print "costs $%.2f with tax" % with_tax