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Literals in python

The document provides an overview of literals in Python programming, detailing numeric and string literals, their types, and formatting options. It discusses the limitations of floating point representation, including overflow, underflow, and precision issues. Additionally, it explains string formatting and the use of escape sequences for control characters.

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K.C.S.

KASI NADAR COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE


(Belongs to S.V.H.N.A.Dharma Fund)

LITERALS IN PYTHON PROGRAMMING

By,
Mrs.B.VIJAYALAKSHMI,
Assistant Professor,
Department Of Computer Science.
Literals in Python

• A literal is a sequence of one or more characters that stands for itself.


• Literals often referred to as constant values that have a fixed value.
Python allows several kinds of literals:
• Numeric Literals
• String Literals
Numeric Literals

• A numeric literal is a literal containing only the digits 0–9, a sign character (1
or 2) and a possible decimal point.
• Commas are never used in numeric literals.
There are 3 Numerical types
• integers : positive or negative whole numbers with no decimal points
( Eg : 2, -6, 3, 5, 7 )
• Floating point : Consists of Fractional part. ( Eg. 1.4, 5.6 )
• Complex numbers
Limits of Range in floating point representation

• No limit to the size of an integer that can be represented in Python.

• Floating-point values, Python providing a range of 10 -308


to 10 +308
with 16 to 17 digits of precision.
Limitations of floating point representation
• Arithmetic overflow problem :
 If you are trying to multiply two long floating point integers,
we get the result as inf ( infinity )
• Arithmetic underflow problem :
 This problem occurs in division.
 If denominator is larger than numerator, then it will result in
zero.
Eg: 1/10000=0.00001
Limits of precision in floating point representation

• Loss of precision problem :


 This problem occurs in division.
 If numerator divided by denominator, then if the result is
never ending.
Eg : 10/3 = 3.33333
String literals in Python

• Single Quote  ‘ ‘
• Double Quote  “ “
• Triple Quote  ‘’’ ‘’’
 Represent the string either in ‘ PYTHON ’ or “ PYTHON “
 Triple Quote is used to represent “ multi line string “
Eg :
‘’’ WELCOME TO
PYTHON PROGRAMMING ‘’’
Number Formatting
• The built-in format function can be used to produce a value containing a
specific number of decimal places.
Syntax :
format(value, format_specifier)
where value is the value to be displayed
format_specifier can contain specific number of
decimal places.
Eg: format(12/5, '.2f') -> '2.40'
format(5/7, '.2f') -> '0.71‘
format specifier '.2f' rounds the result to two decimal places.
String Formatting

• A built-in-function used to control how the strings are displayed.


Syntax :
format(value, format_specifier)
where value is the value to be displayed
format_specifier can contain a combination of
formatting options.
• Formatting options can be left ( ‘<‘ ), right ( ‘ > ‘ ), center ( ‘ ^ ‘)
• Default formatting is LEFT justified
String Formatting Example

• To produce the string 'Hello' left-justified in a field width of 20 characters


would be done as follows :
format('Hello', ' < 20') ➝ 'Hello '
• To right-justify the string, the following would be used
format('Hello', ' > 20') ➝ ' Hello‘
• To center the string the '^' character is used
format('Hello', '^20') ➝ ' Hello ‘
ESCAPE SEQUENCE IN PYTHON
• Control characters are nonprinting characters used to control the display of output.
• Represented by a combination of characters called an escape sequence .
• An escape sequence is a string of one or more characters used to denote control characters.
• To print the special characters in the screen, we use the escape sequence.
• The backslash (\) serves as the escape character in Python.

EXAMPLE :
>>>print('Hello\nJennifer Smith')
O/P:
Hello
Jennifer Smith

>>> print ('what\'s your name?')


O/P : what's your name?

>>> print ('what's your name?')


THANK YOU!!!

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