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(ur Hello World program is very simple, i onlyneeds two tines. ‘Thefirstline begins witha ‘shebang’ (the symbol #!— also known as a hashbang) followed by the path to the Python interpreter. The program loader uses thisline towork out what the est of the lines need to be interpreted with. If you're running this in an IDE lke DLE, you don't necessariynoed todo this. The code thats actualy read by the Python interpreter is only 2 single tne. Were passing the value Hello World to the print function by placing tin brackets immediately efter we've called the print function. Helo Word is enclosed in quotation marks to indicate that tis teal value and should not be interpreted as source code. As expected, the prntfuntion in Python prints any value that gets passed tit from the console. ‘You can save the changes youve just made tothe fle innano Using tho key combination GAO, followed by Enter. Use HEX toexitnano. ‘You can run the Hello World program by prefixing its filename with J in this case you'd type: Fioumeuingagepid ‘siorncharon en ove cele raetieas feayeatbetecest 10 The Python Book Variables and datatypes Avarlabl isa name in source ode that is associated with an fra in memory tt you can se fo store deta, wich a then Called upon thoughout the code. The data can be one of many types including eres eee ees As wel as these main data types, there are sequence types: (technically, astringis a sequence type but is commonly used we've classed tas A tuple would be used for something like a co-ordinate, Containing anx and y value stored as a single variable, whereas 8 list is typically used to store larger collections. The data stored in @ tuple is immutable because you aren't able to change values of individual elements in a tuple. However, you ceandosoinalist. it will also be useful to know about Python's dictionary ‘ype. A dictionary is a mapped data type. 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