There are many ways to do this. To fix your current code using %-formatting, you need to pass in a tuple:
Pass it as a tuple:
print("Total score for %s is %s" % (name, score))
A tuple with a single element looks like ('this',).
Here are some other common ways of doing it:
Pass it as a dictionary:
print("Total score for %(n)s is %(s)s" % {'n': name, 's': score})
There's also new-style string formatting, which might be a little easier to read:
Use new-style string formatting:
print("Total score for {} is {}".format(name, score))
Use new-style string formatting with numbers (useful for reordering or printing the same one multiple times):
print("Total score for {0} is {1}".format(name, score))
Use new-style string formatting with explicit names:
print("Total score for {n} is {s}".format(n=name, s=score))
Concatenate strings:
print("Total score for " + str(name) + " is " + str(score))
The clearest two, in my opinion:
Just pass the values as parameters:
print("Total score for", name, "is", score)
If you don't want spaces to be inserted automatically by print in the above example, change the sep parameter:
print("Total score for ", name, " is ", score, sep='')
If you're using Python 2, won't be able to use the last two because print isn't a function in Python 2. You can, however, import this behavior from __future__:
from __future__ import print_function
Use the new f-string formatting in Python 3.6:
print(f'Total score for {name} is {score}')