Example

# 
#    Name: scalarsTest.py
# Purpose: Test Python program for scalar types
#
# Inputs (name)         (type)
#       inString        String
#       inBool          Boolean
#       inLong          Long
#       inDouble        Double
#       inDateTime      DateTime
#       inDate          Date
#       inTime          Time
#
# Outputs (name)        (type)
#       outString       String
#       outBool         Boolean
#       outLong         Long
#       outDouble       Double
#       outDateTime     DateTime
#       outDate         Date
#       outTime         Time

# import the datetime module to perform datetime operations
import datetime

def scalarsTest(inString, inBool, inLong, inDouble, inDateTime, inDate, inTime):
    "Output: outString, outBool, outLong, outDouble, outDateTime, outDate, outTime"
    
    if inString == None:
        outString = None
    else:
        # convert the casing of the string input
        outString = inString.swapcase()
    print ("\n inString=", inString, " outString=", outString)
    
    if inBool == None:
        outBool = None
    else:
        # reverse value of boolean
        outBool = not inBool
    print ("\n inBool=", inBool, " outBool=", outBool)
    
    if inLong == None:
        outLong = None
    else:
        # add 10 to long
        outLong = inLong + 10
    print ("\n inLong=", inLong, " outLong=", outLong)
    
    if inDouble == None:
        outDouble = None
    else:
        # add 10.1 to the double 
        outDouble = inDouble + 10.1
    print ("\n inDouble=", inDouble, " outDouble=", outDouble)
    
    if inDateTime == None:
        outDateTime = None
    else:
        # add a day to the datetime object
        outDateTime = inDateTime + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    print ("\n inDateTime=", inDateTime, " outDateTime=", outDateTime)
    
    if inDate == None:
        outDate = None
    else:
        # add a week to the date object
        outDate = inDate + datetime.timedelta(weeks=1)
    print ("\n inDate=", inDate, " outDate=", outDate)
    
    if inTime == None:
        outTime = None
    else:
        # add 30 minutes to the time object
        dt = datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date.today(), inTime) 
        dt = dt + datetime.timedelta(minutes=30)
        outTime = dt.time()
    print ("\n inTime=", inTime, " outTime=", outTime)
    
    # return all of our outputs
    return outString, outBool, outLong, outDouble, outDateTime, outDate, outTime