basic_exercise.py

print "Let's pratice everything."
print 'You\'d need to know \'bout escapes with \\ that do \n newlines and \t tabs.'

poem = """
\t The lovely world
with logic so firmly planted
cannot discreen \n the needs of love
nor cimprehend passion from intuition
and requires an explanation
\n\t where there is none.
"""

print "-------"
print poem
print "-------"

five = 10 - 2 + 3 - 6
print "This should be five: %s" % five

def secert_formula(started):
    jelly_beans = started * 500
    jars = jelly_beans / 1000
    crates = jars / 100
    return jelly_beans, jars, crates

start_point = 10000
beans, jars, crates = secert_formula(start_point)

print "With a starting point of: %d" % start_point
print "We'd have %d beans, %d jars, and %d crates." % (beans, jars, crates)

print "We can also do that this way:"
start_point = start_point / 10
print "We'd have %d beans, %d jars, and %d crates." % secert_formula(start_point)