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Python is an interactive, portable, and extensible programming language. It has a simple syntax and supports functions, classes, modules, and built-in data structures like lists, tuples, and dictionaries. Control structures include conditional statements like if/else and loops like while and for. Functions can take parameters with default values and return values. Variables exist in module-level global scope or local function scope. Exceptions can be handled with try/except blocks.

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Python

Python is an interactive, portable, and extensible programming language. It has a simple syntax and supports functions, classes, modules, and built-in data structures like lists, tuples, and dictionaries. Control structures include conditional statements like if/else and loops like while and for. Functions can take parameters with default values and return values. Variables exist in module-level global scope or local function scope. Exceptions can be handled with try/except blocks.

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Artificial Intelligence

Python
Python Introduction

Web site: www.python.org.


Features of Python
Interactive: one can launch a Python console and run
instructions directly it.
Portable: available on most existing systems. It only
requires a C compiler to be ported to any new platform.
Structure: functions, classes, modules.
It is easy to embed Python with C and C++.
The user can write their own code in C or C++ and
compile it as Python modules or functions. That makes
Python extensible.
Usual applications: scripts including CGI scripts, GUIs,
scientific computing.
Many existing libraries for all sort of purposes.
Syntax Rules
The syntax is designed to be simplified as compared to
other languages like C/C++.
Every compound instruction ends with ":"
There are no blocks of code; blocks are implicitly created
by indentation.
Expressions: usual arithmetic operators, named logic
operators: and, or, not.
Assignments use the = sign but they don't have to end
with ";"
Comments start with # as in shell scripting.
Variables are declared by assigning them a value and
they are local to the block where they appear first.
Control Structures
Conditional: Loops:
if condition: while condition:
instructions     instructions
elif condition: #*
else:  # optional
instructions     instructions
else: # optional
instructions for var in S:       
    instructions
else:  # optional
    instructions
for i in range(n):
    instructions
Built-in Data Structures
Lists: linked lists implementing the subscript
operator:
x = [1,2,3]
x.append(4)
print x[2] # result: 3
Tupples: constant kind of arrays
x = (1,2,3)
Dictionaries: association lists
x = {}
x["word"] = reference
for k in x.keys():
print x[k]
Functions and Parameters
Function definition:
def function_name (par1, par2, ...):
body of the function
It supports default values for parameters.
All parameters are value parameters.
Any variable storing a complex data structure
contains a reference to it. Any changes to the
content of such a data structure in the function
will affect the variable passed in the function
call.
Assignments involving a complex data structure
don't make a copy of it.
More Built-in Functions
Function type: returns the type of an object.
type(0) – returns <type ‘int’>
Checking if something is an integer:
if type(x) == type(0): ...
Reading a value from the terminal: input()
x = input()
Returning a value from a function:
return True

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Example of Conditional
def check_type(x):
if type(x) == type(0):
print x, "is an integer"
elif type(x) == type(1.0):
print x, "is a float"
elif type(x) == type(""):
print x, "is a string"
elif type(x) == type([]):
print x, "is an array"
...

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Example of while/else
def Euler(a, b):
if b==0:
return a
r = a % b
while r:
a = b
b = r
r = a % b
else:
print "a divisible by b"
return b
return r
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Booleans
Truth values: True and False.
False is equivalent with 0, and empty list
[], an empty dictionary {}.
Anything else is equivalent to True.
Example:
x = 0
if not x:
print “0 is False”

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Default Values for Parameters
Default values:
def function (var1 = value, var2 = value, ...):
Just like in C++, all the parameters that have
default values must be grouped at the end.
def GCD1(a=10, b=20): ...
GCD1() -> 10
GCD1(125) -> 5
GCD1(12, 39) -> 3

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Variables and Scope
Module: one python file.
Global scope: exists in the module in which they
are declared.
Local scope: local to the function inside which it
is declared.
Global variables in a module can be accessed
from somewhere else using the notation
module.variable.
Example: string.digits contains ‘0123456789’.

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Example Scope
def test_scope():
for i in range(4):
for j in range (3):
x = i*10+j
if x>20:
print x,
print x
test_scope()
21 22 30 31 32 32
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Try - Except
Try: attempts to execute an instruction.
If the operation is successful, it moves on.
If not, we have the option of doing something
else with the instruction
except:
Another option:
except error_type:
which does something only for a particular type
of exception.
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def scope1():
y = 15
y = 20
def scope2():
y = 25
def scope3():
try:
print y
except:
print "cannot access global y"
print days
y = 25
print y
days=["monday", "tuesday"]

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