How to write and check result in your first Python Program

# FirstPythonProgram:

The first Python progrm looks like the below

My first program: odbchelper.py

def buildConnectionString(params):

"""Build a connection string from a dictionary of parameters.

Returns string."""

return ";".join(["%s=%s" % (k, v) for k, v in params.items()])

if __name__ == "__main__":

myParams = {"server":"mpilgrim", \

"database":"master", \

"uid":"sa", \

"pwd":"secret" \

}

print buildConnectionString(myParams)

Running Programs in UNIX

On UNIX-compatible systems (including Mac OS X), you can run a Python program from the command line: python odbchelper.py

The output of odbchelper.py will look like this:
server=mpilgrim;uid=sa;database=master;pwd=secret