Writing scripts with the Python interactive console

The Python interactive console starts from >>> prefix. This console will accept the Python commands, which you'll write after >>> prefix. Refer to the following screenshot:

Now, we will see how to assign values to the variable, as in the following example:

>>> name = John

Here, we've assigned a character value of John to the name variable. We pressed Enter and received a new line with >>> prefix:

>>> name = John

Now, we will see an example of assigning values to variables and then we will perform a math operation to get the values:

>>> num1 = 5000
>>> num2 = 3500
>>> num3 = num1 + num2
>>> print (num3)
8500
>>> num4 = num3 - 2575
>>> print (num4)
5925
>>>

Here, we assigned values to variables, added two variables, stored the result in a third variable, and printed the result on to the Terminal. Next, we subtracted one variable from the result variable, and the output will get stored in the fourth variable. Then, we printed the result on to the Terminal. So this tells us that we can also use the Python interpreter as a calculator:

>>> 509 / 22
23.136363636363637
>>>

Here, we performed a division operation. We divided 509 by 22 and the result we got is 23.136363636363637.