KEYWORDS, IDENTIFIERS AND

DATA TYPES IN PYTHON

Rounaq Choudhuri
rounaqchoudhuri@gmail.com
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Lecture II Python Programming

 Agenda for Lecture II
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 Commenting
 Keywords and Identifiers
 Numbers
 Strings
 Multiple Assignments

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 Commenting Python
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 Comments in Python are marked with the “#” symbol.

 Comments are used to annotate notes or other information
without having Python try to perform an operation on them.

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 Python Identifiers
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 A Python Identifier is the name used to identify a

variable, function, class, module or other object
 An identifier starts with a letter A to Z or a to z or
an underscore (_) followed by zero or more
letters, underscores and digits (0 to 9)
 The python does not allow punctuation
characters and special characters such as @, $,
and % within identifiers
 Python is case sensitive programming language

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 Python Identifiers
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Naming Convention of Identifiers:

 Class names start with an uppercase letter. All other
identifiers start with a lowercase letter (ex. class
Person)
 Starting an identifier with a single leading underscore
indicates that the identifier is private (ex. def _Emp() )
 Starting an identifier with two leading underscores
indicates a strongly private identifier (ex. def __Emp() )
 If the identifier also ends with two trailing underscores,
the identifiers is a language-defined special name (ex.
def __init__() )

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 Python Identifiers
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When running the Python interpreter in interactive mode,

a single underscore character(_) is a special identifier that
holds
the result of the last expression evaluated.

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 Python Keywords
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 Keywords are special reserved words which convey a

special meaning to the compiler/interpreter
 Python Keywords cannot be used instead of Python
Identifiers

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 Python Keywords
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print not
is

assert

or and

del

exec

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 Python Keywords
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 We will learn more about if, elif, else, for, while,

break, continue, pass and in keywords in Flow
control.
 We will learn more about import, from, as, try,
except, raise and finally keywords in Modules &
Exceptions.
 We will learn more about lambda, def, return and
yield keywords in Functions.
 We will learn more about class and global
keywords in Classes and Objects.
 We will learn more about with keyword in File I/O.
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 Data Types
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 Python is a dynamically typed language

DATA DESCRIPTION MUTABILIT EXAMPLE
TYPE Y
Number Stores numeric values Immutable 5, 6, etc.
String Sequence of characters Immutable “This is a
String”
List List of elements. The elements Mutable [1,”Hello”,
may be of different data types True]
Tuple List of elements. The elements Immutable (1,”Hello”,
may be of different data types True)
Dictionary A list of items indexed by keys. Mutable {“Name”:”Ra
Keys are unique and non- hul”,
mutable “Age”:26}

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 Numbers
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 Integer Numbers and Floating-point Numbers

Data Types Examples

Integer -2, 1, 0, -99

Floating – point 1.25, -1.0, -0.5, 0.0, 0.5,

 type(object) method  The type(object) is

python in-built method that returns the data type
of an object.

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 Examples(Numbers)
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 Integer numbers and floating-point numbers can

be stored in variables and kept for later
operations

 Integer numbers and Floating-point numbers can

be used to operate on each other

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 Numbers
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 Python also supports two other types of

numbers
 Long integers

 Complex numbers
• They are written in the form of:
a + bJ

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 Strings
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 Strings in programming are simply text,

either individual characters, words,
phrases, or complete sentences.
 They are sequence of characters(string
of characters)

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 Strings
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 They are written within single quotes(‘ ’)

and double quotes(“ ”)

 They can be also written within triple

single quotes(‘’’ ‘’’) and triple double
quotes(“”” “””)

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 Escaping Sequences
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 A sequence of characters that starts with

a backslash is known as an escape
sequence.
 These are used to enter characters that
areESCAPE
not usually recognized
SEQUENCE by the
DESCRIPTION
interpreter.
\n New line
\t Tab space
\\ Backslash
\’ Single quote
\” Double quote

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 String Indices and Slicing
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 Strings are arrays of characters and

elements of an array can be accessed
using indexing.
 Indices start with 0 from
left side and -1 when start
from right side.
 To cut a substring from a
string is called string slicing.

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 String Formatting or
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Interpolation
 String formatting or string interpolation
is dynamic putting of various values into
a string.
 Either the ‘%’ symbol or the {} and the
format() method is used.

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 String methods
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 These methods are provided by the

python interpreter.
METHOD DESCRIPTION
len(string) Returns the length of the string
string.strip() Strips the string of any extra spaces on the RHS
and LHS
string.split() Splits the string into a list using a delimiter
(default delimiter=“ “)
string.count(substr Returns the number of times the substring
ing) occurs in the string
string.find(substrin Returns the index of the substring
g)
‘ ’.join(string) Joins the characters using “ “
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string.swapcase() Swaps lowercase for uppercase and vice versa
 Concatenation and
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Replication
 Two strings can be concatenate using
the ‘+’ operator.

 Replication It is the process by a string

is replicated several times

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 Boolean and ‘None’ values
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 Python also supports two kinds of values:

 Boolean values True and False

 ‘None’

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 Multiple Assignments
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 Multiple python variables can be assigned values

in a single statement

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 Question
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Question???

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