""" Purpose: demonstrate string multiplication
"""
# we can smush strings together with +
# we can use the * operator between a string and a number
one_dash = "-"
n = 50 # setting up numbers in variables means that if we want to change them we
# only have to change them in one place

dashes = n * one_dash # this makes sense to python

print( n, "*", one_dash, "is", dashes )

dashes = one_dash * n # this does too

print( one_dash, "*", n, "is", dashes )
# if you were getting really weird output in all_consuming.py, a lot of people were
# multiplying string responses instead of casting to numbers first