cannot add % sign to show on the pie

Question

enter image description hereIm plotting Pie with values shown as % but values appear without "%" sign, I,m trying to add it("%") as string but says format is incomplete, when i remove it, it prints values without sign

I m using:

df['Sold Contract'].value_counts().plot(kind='pie', figsize=(5,5), legend= True, autopct ="%.1f")

And trying to USE :

df['Sold Contract'].value_counts().plot(kind='pie', figsize=(5,5), legend= True, autopct ="%.1f%")

or 
autopct ="{%.1f}%"
or
autopct ="(%.1f) %"
or 
autopct =("%.1f %")

Expecting to see % sign next to values on the PIE

Answer 1

Actually, that is a very good question. The main reason is that normally when you want to use a special character inside a string as a character(", ', ) you use the backslash(/) before that character(", ', \). In the case of the % sign, you use two signs(so %%) inside your string to print one percent sign So: print("This is a percent sign: %%") -> This is a percent sign: % I hope that helps!