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>>> college="mrcet"
An print statement is something which is an input from the user, to be printed / displayed on
to the screen (or ) monitor.
>>> print("mrcet colege")
mrcet college
Precedence of Operators:
Operator precedence affects how an expression is evaluated.
For example, x = 7 + 3 * 2; here, x is assigned 13, not 20 because operator * has higher
precedence than +, so it first multiplies 3*2 and then adds into 7.
Example 1:
>>> 3+4*2
11
Multiplication gets evaluated before the addition operation
>>> (10+10)*2
40
Parentheses () overriding the precedence of the arithmetic operators
Example 2:
a = 20
b = 10
c = 15
d=5
e=0
e = (a + b) * c / d #( 30 * 15 ) / 5
print("Value of (a + b) * c / d is ", e)
e = ((a + b) * c) / d # (30 * 15 ) / 5
print("Value of ((a + b) * c) / d is ", e)
e = (a + b) * (c / d); # (30) * (15/5)
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print("Value of (a + b) * (c / d) is ", e)
e = a + (b * c) / d; # 20 + (150/5)
print("Value of a + (b * c) / d is ", e)
Output:
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Value of (a + b) * c / d is 90.0
Value of ((a + b) * c) / d is 90.0
Value of (a + b) * (c / d) is 90.0
Value of a + (b * c) / d is 50.0
Comments:
Single-line comments begins with a hash(#) symbol and is useful in mentioning that the
whole line should be considered as a comment until the end of line.
A Multi line comment is useful when we need to comment on many lines. In python, triple
double quote(“ “ “) and single quote(‘ ‘ ‘)are used for multi-line commenting.
Example:
Output:
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30
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Modules:
Modules: Python module can be defined as a python program file which contains a python
code including python functions, class, or variables. In other words, we can say that our
python code file saved with the extension (.py) is treated as the module. We may have a
runnable code inside the python module. A module in Python provides us the flexibility to
organize the code in a logical way. To use the functionality of one module into another, we
must have to import the specific module.
Syntax:
import <module-name>
Every module has its own functions, those can be accessed with . (dot)
Note: In python we have help ()
Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing Python programs
and using Python modules. To quit this help utility and return to the interpreter, just type
"quit".
Some of the modules like os, date, and calendar so on……
>>> import sys
>>> print([Link])
3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:21:23) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)]
>>> print(sys.version_info)
sys.version_info(major=3, minor=8, micro=0, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
>>> print([Link](2021,5))
>>> print([Link](2020))
True
>>> print([Link](2017))
False
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Functions:
Functions and its use: Function is a group of related statements that perform a specific task.
Functions help break our program into smaller and modular chunks. As our program grows
larger and larger, functions make it more organized and manageable. It avoids repetition and
makes code reusable.
Basically, we can divide functions into the following two types:
1. Built-in functions - Functions that are built into Python.
Ex: abs(),all().ascii(),bool()………so on….
integer = -20
print('Absolute value of -20 is:', abs(integer))
Output:
Absolute value of -20 is: 20
2. User-defined functions - Functions defined by the users themselves.
def add_numbers(x,y):
sum = x + y
return sum
print("The sum is", add_numbers(5, 20))
Output:
The sum is 25
Flow of Execution:
1. The order in which statements are executed is called the flow of execution
2. Execution always begins at the first statement of the program.
3. Statements are executed one at a time, in order, from top to bottom.
4. Function definitions do not alter the flow of execution of the program, but remember
that statements inside the function are not executed until the function is called.
5. Function calls are like a bypass in the flow of execution. Instead of going to the next
statement, the flow jumps to the first line of the called function, executes all the
statements there, and then comes back to pick up where it left off.
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Note: When you read a program, don’t read from top to bottom. Instead, follow the flow of
execution. This means that you will read the def statements as you are scanning from top to
bottom, but you should skip the statements of the function definition until you reach a point
where that function is called.
Example:
#example for flow of execution
print("welcome")
for x in range(3):
print(x)
print("Good morning college")
Output:
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welcome
0
1
2
Good morning college
The flow/order of execution is: 2,3,4,3,4,3,4,5
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Output:
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hi
hello
Good morning
mrcet
done!
The flow/order of execution is: 2,5,6,7,2,3,4,7,8
Parameters and arguments:
Parameters are passed during the definition of function while Arguments are passed during
the function call.
Example:
#here a and b are parameters
def add(a,b): #//function definition
return a+b
#12 and 13 are arguments
#function call
result=add(12,13)
print(result)
Output:
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There are three types of Python function arguments using which we can call a function.
1. Default Arguments
2. Keyword Arguments
3. Variable-length Arguments
Syntax:
def functionname():
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statements
.
.
.
functionname()
Function definition consists of following components:
1. Keyword def indicates the start of function header.
2. A function name to uniquely identify it. Function naming follows the same rules of writing
identifiers in Python.
3. Parameters (arguments) through which we pass values to a function. They are optional.
4. A colon (:) to mark the end of function header.
5. Optional documentation string (docstring) to describe what the function does.
6. One or more valid python statements that make up the function body. Statements must have
same indentation level (usually 4 spaces).
7. An optional return statement to return a value from the function.
Example:
def hf():
hello world
hf()
In the above example we are just trying to execute the program by calling the function. So it
will not display any error and no output on to the screen but gets executed.
To get the statements of function need to be use print().
#calling function in python:
def hf():
print("hello world")
hf()
Output:
hello world
-------------------------------
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def hf():
print("hw")
print("gh kfjg 66666")
hf()
hf()
hf()
Output:
hw
gh kfjg 66666
hw
gh kfjg 66666
hw
gh kfjg 66666
---------------------------------
def add(x,y):
c=x+y
print(c)
add(5,4)
Output:
def add(x,y):
c=x+y
return c
print(add(5,4))
Output:
-----------------------------------
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def add_sub(x,y):
c=x+y
d=x-y
return c,d
print(add_sub(10,5))
Output:
(15, 5)
The return statement is used to exit a function and go back to the place from where it was
called. This statement can contain expression which gets evaluated and the value is returned.
If there is no expression in the statement or the return statement itself is not present inside a
function, then the function will return the None object.
def hf():
return "hw"
print(hf())
Output:
hw
----------------------------
def hf():
return "hw"
hf()
Output:
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>>>
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def hello_f():
return "hellocollege"
print(hello_f().upper())
Output:
HELLOCOLLEGE
# Passing Arguments
def hello(wish):
return '{}'.format(wish)
print(hello("mrcet"))
Output:
mrcet
------------------------------------------------
Here, the function wish() has two parameters. Since, we have called this function with two
arguments, it runs smoothly and we do not get any error. If we call it with different number
of arguments, the interpreter will give errors.
def wish(name,msg):
"""This function greets to
the person with the provided message"""
print("Hello",name + ' ' + msg)
wish("MRCET","Good morning!")
Output:
Hello MRCET Good morning!
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Below is a call to this function with one and no arguments along with their respective error
messages.
>>> wish("MRCET") # only one argument
TypeError: wish() missing 1 required positional argument: 'msg'
>>> wish() # no arguments
TypeError: wish() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'name' and 'msg'
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def hello(wish,hello):
return “hi” '{},{}'.format(wish,hello)
print(hello("mrcet","college"))
Output:
himrcet,college
#Keyword Arguments
When we call a function with some values, these values get assigned to the arguments
according to their position.
Python allows functions to be called using keyword arguments. When we call functions in
this way, the order (position) of the arguments can be changed.
(Or)
If you have some functions with many parameters and you want to specify only some
of them, then you can give values for such parameters by naming them - this is
called keyword arguments - we use the name (keyword) instead of the position
(which we have been using all along) to specify the arguments to the function.
There are two advantages - one, using the function is easier since we do not need to
worry about the order of the arguments. Two, we can give values to only those
parameters which we want, provided that the other parameters have default argument
values.
def func(a, b=5, c=10):
print 'a is', a, 'and b is', b, 'and c is', c
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func(3, 7)
func(25, c=24)
func(c=50, a=100)
Output:
a is 3 and b is 7 and c is 10
a is 25 and b is 5 and c is 24
a is 100 and b is 5 and c is 50
Note:
The function named func has one parameter without default argument values,
followed by two parameters with default argument values.
In the first usage, func(3, 7), the parameter a gets the value 3, the parameter b gets the
value 5 and c gets the default value of 10.
In the second usage func(25, c=24), the variable a gets the value of 25 due to the
position of the argument. Then, the parameter c gets the value of 24 due to naming i.e.
keyword arguments. The variable b gets the default value of 5.
In the third usage func(c=50, a=100), we use keyword arguments completely to
specify the values. Notice, that we are specifying value for parameter c before that
for a even though a is defined before c in the function definition.
For example: if you define the function like below
def func(b=5, c=10,a): # shows error : non-default argument follows default argument
-------------------------------------------------------
def print_name(name1, name2):
""" This function prints the name """
print (name1 + " and " + name2 + " are friends")
#calling the function
print_name(name2 = 'A',name1 = 'B')
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