Everytime you run a python command, python does does the following steps in sequence:
- Read
- Evaluate
- Print - if anything needs printing.
- Loopback - go back to the command line
The above is called "repl" for short.
To print anything, you need to use the "print", which in Python 3, is a function.
[python]
=>=>=> print("hello world!")
hello world!
[/python]
Some maths are also really easy to do:
[python]
=>=>=> 5 # this is a comment.
5
=>=>=> 2
2
=>=>=> 2 + 5
7
=>=>=> x = 20
=>=>=> x*5 # note you can leave out white spaces.
100
=>=>=> _ - 1 # "_" is a builtin variable that holds the last thing that has been outputted.
99
=>=>=>
[/python]
Note: The "_" only works on the command line, but not in scripts.
With the maths you can see repl in action.