Assignment and equality
When looking at someone's wealth, a distinction between cash and non-cash securities is important. Savings and checking accounts are cash securities. Stock positions are non-cash.
Imagine that as part of balancing a client's wealth portfolio, you are asked to compare their cash and non-cash securities. The variable non_cash
is provided with the value of the non-cash securities.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Python for Finance
Exercise instructions
- Assign a value of 19.11 to the variable
cash
. - Check if
cash
andnon_cash
have the same value. - Assign to
cash
the value ofnon_cash
. - Confirm that
cash
andnon_cash
are equal.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Assign a value to cash.
____ ____ ____
# Check if cash is equal to non-cash
print(____ ____ ____)
# Assign the value of cash to be equal non-cash
____ ____ ____
# Check if cash is equal to non-cash
print(____ ____ ____)