First step: making a Python script ================================== In this first step, we simply cut-and-paste the code in a ``.py`` file. We added an `assertion `_ to verify the input parameters of the code. Assertions not only document your code (when they are placed in prominent places), and they are also verified at runtime. .. literalinclude:: root1.py and we display the execution below. .. command-output:: python typing/root1.py