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Problem Solving Using Python: Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, SJCET Palai

This document discusses operators and operands in Python problem solving. It explains that operators like +, -, /, *, ** represent mathematical operations and the order they are evaluated following PEMDAS rules. Strings can be concatenated with + but not other math operations. Comments are recommended to explain programs. Conditionals like if-statements allow branching based on the modulus operator %. The modulus % returns the remainder of a division and can be used to check for divisibility or extract digits of a number.

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Problem Solving Using Python: Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, SJCET Palai

This document discusses operators and operands in Python problem solving. It explains that operators like +, -, /, *, ** represent mathematical operations and the order they are evaluated following PEMDAS rules. Strings can be concatenated with + but not other math operations. Comments are recommended to explain programs. Conditionals like if-statements allow branching based on the modulus operator %. The modulus % returns the remainder of a division and can be used to check for divisibility or extract digits of a number.

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Problem Solving using Python

Prof. Sarju S
Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, SJCET Palai

Tuesday, January 05, 2021


Operators and operands

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Operators and operands
► Operators are special symbols that represent computations like addition and
multiplication. The values the operator uses are called operands.
► The following are all legal Python expressions
► 20+32 hour-1 hour*60+minute minute/60 5**2 (5+9)*(15-7)
► The symbols +, -, and /, and the use of parenthesis for grouping, mean in
Python what they mean in mathematics.
► The asterisk (*) is the symbol for multiplication, and ** is the symbol for
exponentiation

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Order of operations
► When more than one operator appears in an expression, the order of
evaluation depends on the rules of precedence.

► Python follows the same precedence rules for its mathematical operators that
mathematics does.

► The acronym PEMDAS is a useful way to remember the order of operations

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Order of operations
► Parentheses have the highest precedence and can be used to force an
expression to evaluate in the order you want.

► Since expressions in parentheses are evaluated first, 2 * (3-1) is 4, and


(1+1)**(5-2) is 8.

► You can also use parentheses to make an expression easier to read, as in


(minute * 100) / 60, even though it doesn’t change the result.

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Order of operations
► Exponentiation has the next highest precedence
► 2**1+1 is 3 and not 4, and 3*1**3 is 3 and not 27.
► Multiplication and Division have the same precedence, which is higher than
Addition and Subtraction, which also have the same precedence.
► 2*3-1 yields 5 rather than 4, and 2/3-1 is -1, not 1

► Operators with the same precedence are evaluated from left to right.

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Operations on strings
► You cannot perform mathematical operations on strings
► message-1 ’Hello’/123 message*’Hello’ ’15’+2, these are illegal
► Interestingly, the + operator does work with strings, although it does not do
exactly what you might expect.
► For strings, the + operator represents concatenation, which means joining the two
operands by linking them end-to-end.
fruit = ’banana’
bakedGood = ’ nut bread’
print fruit + bakedGood
► The output of this program is banana nut bread.
► The * operator also works on strings; it performs repetition
► For example, ’Fun’*3 is FunFunFun.

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Comments
► As programs get bigger and more complicated, they get more difficult to read.
► It is a good idea to add notes to your programs to explain in natural language
what the program is doing.
# compute the percentage of the hour that has elapsed
percentage = (minute * 100) / 60

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Conditionals

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The modulus operator
► The modulus operator works on integers (and integer expressions) and yields
the remainder when the first operand is divided by the second.
► In Python, the modulus operator is a percent sign (%).
>>> quotient = 7 / 3
>>> print quotient
2
>>> remainder = 7 % 3
>>> print remainder
1
So 7 divided by 3 is 2 with 1 left over.

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The modulus operator
► The modulus operator turns out to be surprisingly useful
► You can check whether one number is divisible by another
► if x % y is zero, then x is divisible by y.
► You can extract the right-most digit or digits from a number.
► x % 10 yields the right-most digit of x (in base 10).
► Similarly x % 100 yields the last two digits.

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The modulus operator
► The modulus operator turns out to be surprisingly useful
► You can check whether one number is divisible by another
► if x % y is zero, then x is divisible by y.
► You can extract the right-most digit or digits from a number.
► x % 10 yields the right-most digit of x (in base 10).
number = 1234
print(number%10)
The Result will be : 4
► Similarly x % 100 yields the last two digits
number = 1234
print(number%100)
The Result will be : 34

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The modulus operator
► The modulus operator turns out to be surprisingly useful
► You can check whether one number is divisible by another
► if x % y is zero, then x is divisible by y.
► You can extract the right-most digit or digits from a number.
► x % 10 yields the right-most digit of x (in base 10).
number = 1234
print(number%10)
The Result will be : 4
► Similarly x % 100 yields the last two digits
number = 1234
print(number%100)
The Result will be : 34

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#happycoding

Thank You

Prof. Sarju S
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarju-s/
Email: [email protected]
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