Basics

Data Types and Operators

print () - built-in function that displays input values as text in the output

The pythonic way to name variables is to use all lowercase letters and underscores to separate words. Example: my_height = 58 my_lat = 40 my_long = 105

Arithmetic Operators

• + Addition

• - Subtraction

• * Multiplication

• / Division

• // Divides and rounds down to the nearest integer

• % Mod (the remainder after dividing)

• ** Exponentiation (note that ^ does not do this operation, as you might have seen in other languages)

Assignment Operators

• = Assignment

• += Addition Assignment

• -= Subtraction Assignment

• *= Multiplication Assignment

• /= Division Assignment

• %= Remainder Assignment

• **= Exponent Assignment

Integers and Floats

• int - for integer values

• float - for decimal or floating point values

x = int(4.7)   # x is now an integer 4
y = float(4)   # y is now a float of 4.0