problem with asterisk

Question

so I‘ve been practicing simple operations on my mac and the input I want is (-7 + 2) * (-4)
but when I type the input as : print(-7 + 2) * (-4)
there’s an Error I also tried to put brackets on the asterisk : print(-7 + 2)(*)(-4)
I‘m a beginner so I’m sorry if the answer is obvious but it would really help me to understand more!
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Answer 1

... is there anything preventing you from doing

print((-7 + 2) * (-4))

print() is a function, so whatever you want to print, goes inside the parentheses.

print("inside here")