#
# purpose: a short Python demo program
# rather silly too.
# 
# written by e.bonakdarian  sept 2010
#

print "My name is Esmail"
print "I am your instructor"

miles = 10 # descriptive variable names, always lower case
KM_PER_MILE = 1.609  # notice, CONSTANTS go in UPPER CASE
total_km = miles * KM_PER_MILE # spaces before/after operators

# break up long lines into two - try to keep it below 80
# characters per line, see PEP 8
#       http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
#
print "I ran", miles, "miles last Sunday ... "
print "This is ", total_km, "kilometers .. phew I'm tired."