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Python Identifiers

Identifiers in Python are names assigned to entities such as classes, functions, and variables, following specific rules. They can include letters, digits, and underscores, but cannot start with a digit, use keywords, or contain special symbols. Python is case-sensitive, and valid identifiers can be of any length, with examples provided for both valid and invalid identifiers.

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Python Identifiers

Identifiers in Python are names assigned to entities such as classes, functions, and variables, following specific rules. They can include letters, digits, and underscores, but cannot start with a digit, use keywords, or contain special symbols. Python is case-sensitive, and valid identifiers can be of any length, with examples provided for both valid and invalid identifiers.

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Python Identifiers

An identifier is a name given to entities like class, functions,


variables, etc. It helps to differentiate one entity from another.

Rules for writing identifiers


1. Identifiers can be a combination of letters in lowercase (a to z) or
uppercase (A to Z) or digits (0 to 9) or an underscore _. Names
like myClass, var_1 and print_this_to_screen, all are
valid example.
2. An identifier cannot start with a digit. 1variable is invalid,
but variable1 is a valid name.
3. Keywords cannot be used as identifiers.

global = 1

Output
File "<interactive input>", line 1
global = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
4. We cannot use special symbols like !, @, #, $, % etc. in our
identifier.
a@ = 0

Output
File "<interactive input>", line 1
a@ = 0
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

5. An identifier can be of any length.

Python is a case-sensitive language. This


means, Variable and variable are not the same.

Multiple words can be separated using an underscore,


like this_is_a_long_variable

Python Valid Identifiers Example


 abc123

 abc_de

 _abc

 ABC

 abc

Python Invalid Identifiers Example


 123abc
 abc@

 123

 for

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