Tutorial A1 – Solutions

1 Get your hands on a working installation of Python 3, install Jupyter, and open the exercise solution template.

Task 1 is completed successfully as this notebook is running.

2 Make Python put a Greeting on the screen (fill in your own name) and comment your code!

Hello, <insert_name>! How's your day?

[1]:

print("Hello, Iggy! How's your day?")
# A friendly greeting

Hello, Iggy! How's your day?

3 Make Python raise a SyntaxError and a NameError.

[2]:

( # raises SyntaxError

  File "<ipython-input-2-b3a827af6b79>", line 1
    ( # raises SyntaxError
                          ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing


[3]:

a  # raises NameError

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-da833d585a90> in <module>
----> 1 a  # raises NameError

NameError: name 'a' is not defined