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Variables and Identifiers: The Representation of Character Values

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Variables and Identifiers

Art of Computing -> Algorithms -> Information Theory -> Computer Hardware
Data representation -> Hexa, Octal, Decimal and Conversions -> Boolean Logic ->
gates -> half bit full bit adders -> user application operating system hardware ->
Programming languages
Syntax -> compilers vs interpreters -> python -> basic arithmetic ->

Quiz tmrw

The representation of Character Values


Many Options introduced!
Unicode encoding scheme is most common now
Unicode has many variants, utilizing between 8 and 32 bits for each character
Python uses UTF-8, an 8-bit encoding compatible with ASCII
Over 100k Unicode defined characters for many of the languages of the world
4 billion or million
124 vs 124
Numeric Value

String Value

01111100

001100010011001000110100

124

The ord function gives the UTF-8 ASCII encoding of a character


For example,
Ord(A)

is

65

The chr function gives the character for a given encoding value
Chr(65)

is

Control Characters!
Control characters are special characters that are not displayed
They control the display of output

They dont have a corresponding keyboard character..


We use a combination of characters: escape sequence

Backslash(\) is the escape character in Python


E.g., \n is the newline control character, that begins a new screen line,

Print(Hello\nJennifer Smith)
>Hello
>Jennifer Smith

Built-in function format controls how strings are displayed,


Format(value, format_specifier)
Where:
Value is the value to be displayed,
Format_specifier can contain combination of formatting options
Formatted strings are left-justified by default
To center a string the ^ character is used:
Format(Hello, ^20)

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