In interactive mode, the last printed expression is assigned to the variable _
>>> price * tax
12.5625
>>> price + _
113.0625
>>> round(_, 2) 1
13.06
print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS] -h Display this usage message -H hostname Hostname to connect to """)
hello = r"This is a rather long string containing\n\ several lines of text much as you would do in C."