Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python , 4th Edition

4A JOKE-TELLING PROGRAM

This chapter’s program tells a few jokes to the user and demonstrates more advanced ways to use strings with the print() function. Most of the games in this book will have simple text for input and output. The input is typed on the keyboard by the user, and the output is the text displayed on the screen.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER

• Escape characters

• Using single quotes and double quotes for strings

• Using print()’s end keyword parameter to skip newlines

You’ve already learned how to display simple text output with the print() function. Now let’s take a deeper look at how strings and print() work in Python.

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