# 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