# prints a string
print "Mary had a little lamb."
# prints a string using a string formatter
print "It's fleece was white as %s." % 'snow'
# prints another string
print "And everywhere that Mary went."
# prints a string 10 times. The * 10 acts as a repeater of sorts, so . becomes ..........
print "." * 10 # what'd that do?

# sets a ton of single character string variables
end1 = "C"
end2 = "h"
end3 = "e"
end4 = "e"
end5 = "s"
end6 = "e"
end7 = "B"
end8 = "u"
end9 = "r"
end10 = "g"
end11 = "e"
end12 = "r"

# watch that comma at the end. Try removing it to see what happens
# prints a bunch of variables, and the comma tells the system to keep the next output on the same line
print end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6,
# prints the rest of the variables on the same line as the previous line
print end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12