Variables: store the special dish and its price

Every week Mrs. Sari picks one special dish. This week it is Rendang, at Rp35,000 per portion. The special's name and price appear in several places in Rina's program, and changing each one by hand every week would be a chore. Dimas suggests using variables: store the value once at the top, then use its name anywhere.

Task

Create a variable dish holding the text Rendang and a variable price holding the number 35000 (without quotes). Then show what both variables hold where the comments say, so the output is exactly these 4 lines:
This week's special:
Rendang
Price:
35000

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Hint 1
A variable is a name that stores a value. The = sign means "store the value on the right in the name on the left", for example city = "Yogyakarta".
Hint 2
Text is written in quotes, but numbers are written plainly, without quotes or thousand separators: 35000.
Hint 3
To show what a variable holds, put its name inside print without quotes: print(dish). With quotes, the word "dish" itself is printed.

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Answer

dish = "Rendang"
price = 35000

print("This week's special:")
print(dish)
print("Price:")
print(price)

Explanation

dish = "Rendang" creates a variable called dish and stores the text Rendang in it. price = 35000 stores the number 35000. In Python, the = sign does not mean "equals" as in maths; it is a store instruction: take the value on the right, then store it in the name on the left. This is called assignment.
After that, print(dish) shows what the variable holds, not its name. Next week Mrs. Sari only has to change one line (dish = "Soto Ayam"), and every part of the program that uses dish changes with it.
Rules for variable names:

They may contain letters, digits and underscores _, but must not start with a digit and must not contain spaces. Use selling_price, not selling price.
Case matters: Price and price are two different variables.
Python convention: all lowercase, words separated by underscores.

Common mistakes:

print("dish") prints the word dish, not Rendang. Variable names are written without quotes.
Using a variable before it exists. Python reads from top to bottom, so the line dish = ... must come before print(dish). Otherwise you get NameError: name 'dish' is not defined.
Writing 35,000 with a thousand separator. Python reads the comma as separating two values, so you get two numbers (35 and 0) instead of one.

Python· main.py

# 1. Create a variable dish holding the text Rendang.
# 2. Create a variable price holding the number 35000.

print("This week's special:")
# 3. Show what the variable dish holds here.
print("Price:")
# 4. Show what the variable price holds here.

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