#prints a string -sentence
print "Mary had a little lamb."
#prints a string by implementing a string into an embedded format character.
print "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow'
#prints a string - sentence
print "And everywhere that Mary went."
#prints ten periods together like this ...........
print "." * 10 # what'd that do?
#assigns values to variables end1 to end12
end1 = "C"
end2 = "h"
end3 = "e"
end4 = "e"
end5 = "s"
end6 = "e"
end7 = "B"
end8 = "u"
end9 = "r"
end10 = "g"
end11 = "e"
end12 = "r"


#prints the values of teh above variables. The comma allows 
#the output to be displayed as one line when the function is run
print end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6,
print end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12

