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Getting Started With Python

The document introduces Python programming, highlighting two modes: interactive for short commands and script for longer programs. It explains Python as a high-level, interpreted language with a character set supporting letters, digits, and special characters, as well as tokens like keywords, identifiers, literals, operators, and punctuators. Each token type has specific rules and examples, emphasizing the structure and syntax of Python code.

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Getting Started With Python

The document introduces Python programming, highlighting two modes: interactive for short commands and script for longer programs. It explains Python as a high-level, interpreted language with a character set supporting letters, digits, and special characters, as well as tokens like keywords, identifiers, literals, operators, and punctuators. Each token type has specific rules and examples, emphasizing the structure and syntax of Python code.

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Getting started with python

1)

Interactive mode Script mode


 In interactive mode, commands  In script mode, the Python
are entered one at a time program is written in a file. The
 The output is displayed program is saved with the .py
immediately after pressing the file extension.
Enter key.  The file can be saved and
 The output depends on the last executed using the command
command entered prompt.
 It is convenient for writing  It is suitable for writing long
short programs. programs.
2)
 Python is a high level language: means its programmer-friendly i.e.,
easy to program and comprehend
 Python is an interpreted language: means it requires a interpreter (not
compiler) to execute its code line by line- one statement at a time.
3)
 Python Character set: Is a set of characters a language can recognize. It
can be any letter,digit,or any special character.
 Python supports Unicode encoding standard
 Python has the following Character set:
o Letters : A-Z , a-z
o Digits : 0-9
o Special characters: space + - * / \ ** = () [] {} // != < > == ‘ ‘’
‘’’ , : ; % ! & ~ @ __

line ,form feed .


 Whitespaces: blank spaces, tabs(), carriage return (↩),new

4)
 Tokens: In a passage of test the individual words or punctuators are called
tokens or lexical units or lexical elements. Tokens or lexical units are the
smallest unit in a program
Python has the following tokens:
 Keywords are special words with a specific meaning and function.
 Python has a fixed set of [Link] user cannot create their
Keywords own keywords.
 Example: if,elif,else,for,while,True,False,None,etc.
 Keywords are strictly lowercase except ; True,False and None

 Identifiers are names made by the user which can be given for
variables,functions,etc.
Identifiers  Identifiers may include ; letters,digits and underscore. But they
must strictly begin with either a letter or an underscore
 Example : Apple1 , word_, _hi245

 Is a fixed numeric or non-numeric value that may be a number,text


or other data that represents a value.
Literals  It is stored in variables.
 Example: 2, 2.36 , ‘abc’ etc

 An operator is a symbol or a word that performs some kind of


Operators operation on given the values and returns a result.
 Examples of operators are : + - * /
 Punctuators are symbols which can be used to separate values or
Punctuators to enclose values.
 Examples: () [] {} ; :

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