Python Basics

Why did Guido van Rossum call his programming language Python?

• He thinks Pythons were cool

• He couldn't think of anything else

• A friend suggested it

• He loves Monty Python

What will:

answer = input("Give me a number")

print(answer * 5)

output?

• An error message

• The value of answer multiplied by 5

• answer * 5

• The value of answer repeated 5 times

How do we change a user input from string to integer?

• Casing

• Flipping

• Casting

• Numerising

What does == mean?

• Assign a value to a variable

• Nothing, it's an error caused by typing == instead of =

• Check that the value on the right of the == matches the value on the left

What is concatenation?

• Replacing a string variable with another string variable

• Combining two variables such as first name and last name

• One of the food options in the canteen on Friday

• A large collection of cats in an open space

What can a variable not start with?

• A special character

• A capital letter

• A number

• A lower case letter

What do we use at the start of a comment line?

• @

• #

• "

• *

What arithmetic operations does // perform in Python?

• Remainder

• Division

• Floor Division

• Modulus

What arithmetic operations does % perform in Python?

• Percentage

• Floor Division

• Remainder

• Multiplication

How would we round the variable hourspermonth to 2 decimal places

• hourspermonth = round/2(hourspermonth)

• hourspermonth = round(hourspermonth)

• hourspermonth = round (hourspermonth,2

• hourspermonth = round (hourspermonth,2)