getting started getting input the input function is simple way for your program to get information from people using your program here is an examplename input'enter your name'print'hello'namethe basic structure is variable name input(message to userthe above works for getting text from the user to get numbers from the user to use in calculationswe need to do something extra here is an examplenum eval(input'enter number')print'your number squared'num*numthe eval function converts the text entered by the user into number one nice feature of this is you can enter expressionslike * + and eval will compute them for you note if you run your program and nothing seems to be happeningtry pressing enter there is bit of glitch in idle that occasionally happens with input statements printing here is simple exampleprint'hi there 'the print function requires parenthesis around its arguments in the program aboveits only argument is the string 'hi thereanything inside quotes will (with few exceptionsbe printed exactly as it appears in the followingthe first statement will output + while the second will output print' + 'print( + to print several things at onceseparate them by commas python will automatically insert spaces between them below is an example and the output it produces print'the value of + is ' + print' ' 'xyz ' the value of + is xyz