There are many ways to do this. To fix your current code using %-formatting, you need to pass in a tuple:

1. 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:

2. 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:

3. Use new-style string formatting:

   print("Total score for {} is {}".format(name, score))
   

4. 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))
   

5. Use new-style string formatting with explicit names:

   print("Total score for {n} is {s}".format(n=name, s=score))
   

6. Concatenate strings:

   print("Total score for " + str(name) + " is " + str(score))
   

The clearest two, in my opinion:

7. 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
   

8. Use the new f-string formatting in Python 3.6:

   print(f'Total score for {name} is {score}')
   

Python libraries generally have something called docstrings which could include usage help, methods, parameters, examples, etc. These documentation can be accessed via the built-in function help() in Python. help() will basically list out all the help contents on the screen.

In your case, you might not want all the unnecessary information to be displayed on the screen. So, you can just get the documentation string using the __doc__ property and then extract the required information, in this case only the marker parameters. Here's a little snippet of code which you can use to print out the parameters to the user:

import matplotlib.markers

...

def print_markers():
    table_line_counter = 0
    docstring_list = matplotlib.markers.__doc__.split('\n')

    for line in docstring_list:
        if line.startswith('==='):
            table_line_counter += 1

        if table_line_counter > 0:
            print(line)

        if table_line_counter == 3:
            return

...

# Call this function whenever you want to display
# the table of parameter options

print_markers()

Here, the matplotlib.markers.__doc__ property returns a string. You can use the split() method in conjunction to it in order to get a list of strings separated by newline characters. You can then use a counter to check when the table content starts & ends and print all the content between between that range.