Multiplication

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 13:35:26 EDT 2024


On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:26 PM Piergiorgio Sartor via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 01/04/2024 10.40, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >      Q: How can I multiply two variables in Python? I tried:
> >
> > a = 2
> > b = 3
> > print( ab )
> >
> >      but it did not work.
> >
> >      A: No, this cannot work. To multiply, you need the multiplication
> >      operator. You can import the multiplication operator from "math":
> >
> >      Code example:
> >
> > from math import *
> >
> > a = 2
> > b = 3
> > print( a * b )
>
> I guess the operator "*" can be imported from any module... :-)
>
> bye,
>
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>
> piergiorgio
>
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>>> a = 3
>>> b = 5
>>> print(a*b)
15
>>>


No import is necessary.


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Joel Goldstick


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