;&gt; pi = 3.1415926535897931
</font></pre><font color="black">This example makes three assignments. The first assigns a string
to a new variable named <tt>message</tt>;
the second assigns the integer <tt>17</tt> to <tt>n</tt>; the third
assigns the (approximate) value of <font face="symbol">p</font> to <tt>pi</tt>.<br />
<br />
To display the value of a variable, you can use a print statement:
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&gt;&gt;&gt; print n
17
&gt;&gt;&gt; print pi
3.14159265359
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