When writing programs, we may want to show some values or texts to the console for information, test and debugging purposes.

This section shows how output formatting may be done.

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Accepting user input is critical to interactive programs.

In this section, we examine how to make your Python programs interactive by accepting user inputs through the keyboard.

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Sometimes, a program might need to use data that is stored on our file system. To be able to do this, a program must open and read the files(s) from the file system.

Other times, we might want to generate reports for the results of some computations or operations with

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