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UNIT-1 Lesson 2 Part 1 Variables, Expression and Statements

The document covers the basics of comments, identifiers, and keywords in Python programming. It explains the purpose and types of comments, the rules for creating valid identifiers, and the significance of keywords which are reserved words in Python. Additionally, it provides examples and practice questions to reinforce understanding of these concepts.

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UNIT-1 Lesson 2 Part 1 Variables, Expression and Statements

The document covers the basics of comments, identifiers, and keywords in Python programming. It explains the purpose and types of comments, the rules for creating valid identifiers, and the significance of keywords which are reserved words in Python. Additionally, it provides examples and practice questions to reinforce understanding of these concepts.

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UNIT-1(Lesson 2)

Comments, Identifiers and Keywords


A computer program is a collection of instructions or statements.

A Python program is usually composed of multiple statements. Each statement is composed of one
or a combination of the following:
1. Comments
2. Whitespace characters
3. Tokens
In a computer program, a comment is used to mark a section of code as non-executable.
Comments are mainly used for two purposes:
a) To mark a section of source code as non-executable, so that the Python interpreter ignores it.
b) To provide remarks or an explanation on the working of the given section of code in plain
English, so that a fellow programmer can read the comments and understand the code.
Types of Comments with examples
In Python, there are two types of comments:
1. Single-line comment : It starts with # (also known as the hash or pound character) and the content following # till the end
of that line is a comment.
2. Docstring comment : Content enclosed between triple quotes, either ''' or """.
Below code example demonstrates the usage of comments:

Key points in relation to comments:


3. The # character must be specified at beginning of a comment line.
4. Comments do not nest. Meaning # has no special meaning inside a comment line which starts with #.
5. One cannot write comments inside string literals which are enclosed between single-quotes or double-quotes.
The # character inside a string literal is treated as part of the string's content.
6. In a comment anything written after # in a particular line is ignored by the interpreter. Meaning it does not form part of
the executable code in the program.
Practice Question:
1. Make the following changes in the below code :
Remove the comment on the line which prints "I am a Python Guru"
Add a comment on the line which prints "Python is not cool"
Python provides a way to specify documentation comments, called docstrings. A docstring is a string literal
(plain text usually in English) provided in the source code to document what a particular segment of code
does.
 Python allows the use of both """triple-double-quotes""" or '''triple-single-quotes''' to create docstrings. However,
the Python coding conventions specification recommends us to use """triple-double-quotes""" for consistency.

The main purpose of docstrings in Python is to provide information on what a particular Python object does and not
how it does

According to the Python coding conventions, the docstring should always begin with a capital letter and end with
a period (.)
Example:
"""
This is a comment
written in
more than just one line.
"""
print("Hello, World!")
Note: docstrings inside modules, classes, functions, members, method definitions,
etc. will be done later
Identifier
An identifier is a name used to identify a variable, function, class, module, or object.

In Python, an identifier is like a noun in English.

Identifier helps in differentiating one entity from the other. For example, name and age which speak of two different aspects are called identifiers.

Python is a case-sensitive programming language. Meaning, Age and age are two different identifiers in Python.

Rules:
1) Identifiers can be a combination of lowercase letters (a to z) or uppercase letters (A to Z) or digits (0 to 9) or an underscore ( _ ).
Examples:
myClass, var_1, print_this_to_screen, _number are valid Python identifiers.

2) An identifier can start with an alphabet or an underscore (_), but not with a digit.
Examples:
1_variable is invalid, but variable_1 is perfectly fine.

3) Keywords cannot be used as identifiers. (Keywords are reserved words in Python which have a special meaning).
Examples:
def, and, not, for, while, if, else etc.

4) Special symbols like !, @, #, $, % etc. are not allowed in identifiers. Only one special symbol underscore (_) is allowed.
Examples:
company#name, $name, email@id are invalid Python identifiers.

5) Identifiers can be of any length.


Which of the following options are correct?
1. Identifiers are used for identifying entities in a program.
2. We can use any special character like @,#,$ as part of identifiers.
3. 1st_string is a valid identifier.
4. string_1 is valid identifier.
5. Identifiers can be of any length.

A. All are Correct


B. 1,2 and 3 only
C. 1,4 and 5 only
D. 1,3 and 4 only
Which of the following options are correct?
1. Identifiers are used for identifying entities in a program.
2. We can use any special character like @,#,$ as part of identifiers.
3. 1st_string is a valid identifier.
4. string_1 is valid identifier.
5. Identifiers can be of any length.

A. All are Correct


B. 1,2 and 3 only
C. 1,4 and 5 only
D. 1,3 and 4 only
Keywords
Every programming language usually has a set of words know as keywords.

These are reserved words with special meaning and purpose. They are used only for the intended
purpose.
Note : We cannot use a keyword as a variable name, function name or as any other identifier name.
Python 2 has 32 keywords while Python 3.5 has 33 keywords. An extra keyword called nonlocal was
added in Python 3.5. 2 more keywords were added in Python 3.7 making it to 35
Latest version is also having 35 keywords
['False', 'None', 'True', 'and', 'as', 'assert', 'async', 'await', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del', 'elif',
'else', 'except', 'finally', 'for', 'from', 'global', 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'nonlocal', 'not', 'or',
'pass', 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'with', 'yield']
Python provides a way to print the list of keywords in its current version.
import keyword # This statement is used to import keyword module.
print(keyword.kwlist) # kwlist contains all the keywords of Python
More on keywords
To check whether a given word is a python keyword or not, we use a built-in function iskeyword().
This function returns a boolean value, if the given word is keyword then it returns True as output
otherwise returns False.
Let us consider a few examples:
Program - 1:
import keyword # We have to import keyword module
print(keyword.iskeyword('and')) # Here 'and' is a keyword so it prints True as output
Output: True

Program - 2:
import keyword # We have to import keyword module
print(keyword.iskeyword('python')) # Here 'python' is not a keyword so it prints False as output
Output: False
Which of the following options are correct?
1. Python version 3.5 has 33 keywords.
2. true is a valid keyword in Python.
3. The keyword nonlocal does not exist in Python 2.
4. Interpreter raises an error when you try to use keyword as a name of an entity.
5. A programmer can easily modify the keywords.

A. All options are correct


B. 1,2,3 and 4 only
C. 3 and 4 only
D. 1,3 and 4 only
Which of the following options are correct?
1. Python version 3.5 has 33 keywords.
2. true is a valid keyword in Python.
3. The keyword nonlocal does not exist in Python 2.
4. Interpreter raises an error when you try to use keyword as a name of an entity.
5. A programmer can easily modify the keywords.

A. All options are correct


B. 1,2,3 and 4 only
C. 3 and 4 only
D. 1,3 and 4 only

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