Basically, there are four kinds of operator.
assignment operator -- like =, a=1 asing a with the value 1
arithmetic operator -- like +,-,*,/ 8/4=4
relational operator -- like >,<,==. The 2>1 will return true
logical operator -- like "and" "or" " not "
assignment operator
nothing more to talk , see an example
>>> a=1+1 >>> a 2 >>> a=8 >>> a 8
That is all. The "=" is the assignment operator.
arithmetic operator
arithmetic including “+” “-” “*” “/” and some more. Let`s see them one by one.
These four should be very easy to understand. See below example you will know how to use.
>>> 1+8 9 >>> 9-5 4 >>> 2*4 8 >>> 8/1 8
See, it`s very easy. But see below example again.
>>> 3/2 1 >>> 3.0/2 1.5 >>> 1+1 2 >>> 1.0+1 2.0
As you can see, the 3/2 is 1 not 1.5. But 3.0/2 will get 1.5. That is because 3 and 2 are all int numbers. So if you want the result is float number, you need to inlcude one float number in the expression.
Some other arithmetic operators
// the operator performing truncating division
>>> 8//5 1 >>> 8.0//5 1.0
This operator will ignore the reminder.
% the operator returning the reminder only.
>>> 5%4 1 >>> 9%5 4
** the exponentiation operator
>>> 2**4 16 >>> 2**2 4
a**b return the b-th power of a
And in python, we can combine the arithmetic operator and assignment operator togather. For example
a-=100 means a=a-100
a+=100 means a=a+100
a**=2 means a=a**2
a//=5 means a=a//5
relational operator
it includes "<,>,<=,>=,!=,==". The relation operator will return a boolen value.
>>> 1>2 False >>> 1<3 True >>> 1<=1 True >>> 1>=2 False >>> 1!=5 True >>> 1==1 True >>> 1==1.0 True
Be attentiion to the last one. 1==1.0 will return true.
logical operator
it include "and , or , not".
Write an calculator
#!/usr/bin/python
a=int(raw_input("please input number a"))
b=int(raw_input("please input number b"))
print(a+b)
print(a-b)
print(a*b)
print(a/b)
raw_input will read from the standard input and assignment the value to a. The text in the "" will be show in the screen.
int will turn the value from raw_input into int type.
[root@racnode1 test]# python calculator.py please input number a 8 please input number b 4 12 4 32 2