June 2017
Beginner
320 pages
7h 37m
English
book
Learn Python 3 the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code
by Zed A. Shaw
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Exercise 7. More Printing
Now we are going to do a bunch of exercises where you just type code in and make it run. I won’t be explaining this exercise because it is more of the same. The purpose is to build up your chops. See you in a few exercises, and do not skip! Do not paste!
ex7.py
1 print("Mary had a little lamb.") 2 print("Its fleece was white as {}.".format('snow')) 3 print("And everywhere that Mary went.") 4 print("." * 10) # what'd that do? 5 6 end1 = "C" 7 end2 = "h" 8 end3 = "e" 9 end4 = "e"10 end5 = "s"11 end6 = "e"12 end7 = "B"13 end8 = "u"14 end9 = "r"15 end10 = "g"16 end11 = "e"17 end12 = "r"18 19 # watch that comma at the end. try removing ...
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