IT 116: Introduction to Scripting - Class 6 Exercise

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 6 Exercise

Practice with interactive mode

Run IDLE on your machine
Practice using the end named argument to print
```
print("Line 1", end=" ")
```
Practice using the sep named argument to print
```
print(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sep=", ")
```
Create some variables
```
number_1 = 4
number_2 = 5
```

Print the values of these numbers using an escape character

print("number_1:\t", number_1)
print("number_2:\t", number_2)

Print a Windows path using escape characters
```
print('The path is C:\\temp\\data.')
```
Print text with single and double quotes using escape characters
```
print("He said \"It\'s me!\"")
```

Script for this exercise

Open a text editor
Use the editor built into IDLE.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex6.py
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

number_1:	 4
number_2:	 5

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The path is C:\temp\data.
He said "It's me!"

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Go to your 116 directory
Go to your ex directory
Inside this directory create the directory ex6
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex6 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your script to pe15
Click and drag your ex6.py file to the ex6 directory

Running my test script on your script (Optional)

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Run my test code on your script
```
~ghoffman/it116_test/ex06.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.