Python Identifiers:
A Python identifier is a 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).Python does not allow punctuation characters such as @, $ and % within identifiers. Python is a case sensitive programming language. Thus, Manpower and manpower are two different identifiers in Python.
Here are following identifier naming convention for Python:
- Class names start with an uppercase letter and all other identifiers with a lowercase letter.
- Starting an identifier with a single leading underscore indicates by convention that the identifier is meant to be private.
- Starting an identifier with two leading underscores indicates a strongly private identifier.
- If the identifier also ends with two trailing underscores, the identifier is a language-defined special name.
Reserved Words:
The following list shows the reserved words in Python. These reserved words may not be used as constant or variable or any other identifier names. All the Python keywords contain lowercase letters only.and | exec | not |
assert | finally | or |
break | for | pass |
class | from | |
continue | global | raise |
def | if | return |
del | import | try |
elif | in | while |
else | is | with |
except | lambda | yield |
Lines and Indentation:
One of the first caveats programmers encounter when learning Python is the fact that there are no braces to indicate blocks of code for class and function definitions or flow control. Blocks of code are denoted by line indentation, which is rigidly enforced.The number of spaces in the indentation is variable, but all statements within the block must be indented the same amount. Both blocks in this example are fine:
if True: print "True" else: print "False"However, the second block in this example will generate an error:
if True: print "Answer" print "True" else: print "Answer" print "False"Thus, in Python all the continous lines indented with similar number of spaces would form a block. Following is the example having various statement blocks:
Note: Don't try to understand logic or different functions used. Just make sure you undertood various blocks even if they are without braces.
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