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Concatenation is something my students always find a little confusing at first. Concatenation is about joining different pieces of information into one print function. Example 1 To help us better understand this let’s look back at the example of how Python treats strings and integers differently. Do you remember the example below? If not run more »

In Python we can write to a text file by using Python code to open and write the file. Today’s lesson comes with some help from a few WWF stars (my childhood pastime). Opening a file is easy in Python. The open function will open a file or create one if it doesn’t exist in more »

A basic if statement will compare 2 parts of a statement to see whether a condition is true or false. if some_condition_thats_True_or_False: do_an_action else: do_a_different_action   A basic if statement example: if a == b: do something… Also do this… else: do this instead   Before we look at what an if statement is, we more »

  Input allows a user to add data to a variable for use later in the programme. This is great if you want to ask the user for anything such as their age or anything else! by default Python always assumes all input data is a string datatype. To change this wrap the input function within more »

In the last lesson, we looked at simple methods to display text in Python. In this lesson it does not get any harder. I simply want to show you 2 new skills that you may find useful.   Escape codes In Displaying text lesson 1, I showed you how to display text that included double more »