Now we can create our first “hello world” Python program.
Save the following text to a file called hello.py
print("hello world")Run the program (ideally using a Python virtual environment) in your console.
projects > python ./hello.py
hello world- The text “hello world” is called a “string“.
- When we output text in the console, programmers call this “printing“, so we have printed the string “hello world” using the print function.
- We have passed a string to the print function. Things that we pass to functions are known as arguments.
Output multiple arguments separated by spaces:
We can supply multiple arguments to the print function. The arguments will all be printed, separated by spaces.
print("hello", "to", "you")hello to youOutput custom text after printing, instead of a newline.
This enables you to print multiple things on the same line.
By default, the text you output with print() will be output with a non-printing newline character after it, meaning the next thing you print will appear on a new line.
But we can easily change this by supplying some text, for example “…”, as an argument for the end parameter.
print("hello", end="...")
print("Bob")hello...Bob
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