Question

We will pass in 2 values, X and Y. You should calculate XY XY and output only the final result. You will probably know that XY XY can be calculated as X times itself Y times. # Get X and Y from the command line:import sysX= int(sys.argv[1])Y= int(sys.argv[2])# Your code goes here

Answer 1

Answer:

import sys

# The value of the second argument is assigned to X

x = int(sys.argv[1])

# The value of the third argument is assigned to Y

y = int(sys.argv[2])

# The result of multiplication of x and y is assigned to 'result'

result = x * y

#The value of the result is displayed to the user

print("The result of multiplying ", x, "and ", y, "is", result)

Explanation:

First we import sys which allow us to read the argument passed when running the program. The argument is number starting from index 0; the name of the python file been executed is sys.argv[0] which is the first argument. The second argument is sys.argv[1] and the third argument is sys.argv[2].

The attached file is named multplyxy (it wasn't  saved as py file because the platform doesn't recognise py file); we can execute it by running: python3 multiplyxy.py 10 23

where x will be 10 and y will be 23.

To run the attached file; it content must be saved as a py file: multiplyxy.py

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