Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Writing scripts with the Python interactive console

The Python interactive console starts from >>> prefix. This console will accept the Python commands, which you'll write after >>> prefix. Refer to the following screenshot:

Now, we will see how to assign values to the variable, as in the following example:

>>> name = John

Here, we've assigned a character value of John to the name variable. We pressed Enter and received a new line with >>> prefix:

>>> name = John

Now, we will see an example of assigning values to variables and then we will perform a math operation to get the values:

>>> num1 = 5000>>> num2 = 3500>>> num3 = num1 + num2>>> ...