2 Identifiers and Variables

IDENTIFIERS ,
VA R I A B L E S &
D ATA T Y P E S
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DEFINITION
 An identifier is nothing but a name given to entities like class,
functions, variables, etc.
OR
 If you assign some name to a programmable entity in Python, then it is
nothing but technically called an identifier.
 It helps to differentiate one entity from another. Python Identifiers are
user-defined names represent a variable, function, class, module or
any other object.
D E PA R T M E N T O F M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
RULES FOR WRITING IDENTIFIERS
 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 _.
For example Names like
– total,
– class_tea and
– Father_name
 An identifier cannot start with a digit
For example
1Name is invalid.
 We cannot use special symbols like !, @, #, $, % etc. in our identifier.
 We cannot use reserved words as a identifiers
WHICH THE FOLLOWING ARE VALID PYTHON IDENTIFIERS
 123total
 total123
 java2share
 ca$h
 _abc_abc
 def
 if
VARIABLES:
 Variable is a name which is used to store the value in a memory location.
 Variable also known as identifier and used to hold value.
 Variable names can be defined using the rules of defining identifier using
group of both letters and digits, but they must begin with a letter or an
underscore.
 Assigning value to variable
1. Single Assignment
2. Multiple Assignment
SINGLE ASSIGNMENT
 Input
– A=10
– B=“mike”
– C=20000.67
 Output:
– 10
– Mike
– 20000.67
MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENT
 We can assign a value to multiple variable in a single line or statement.
 We can use multiple assignments in two ways :
1. Either by assigning a single value to multiple variables in a single

line/statement or
2. Assigning multiple values to multiple variables.
ASSIGNING SINGLE VALUE TO MULTIPLE VARIABLES
 Input
– A=B=C=50
 Output:
– 50
– 50
– 50
ASSIGNING MULTIPLE VALUES TO MULTIPLE VARIABLES
 Input
– A,B,C=5,10,15
 Output:
– 5
– 10
– 15
TYPES OF VARIABLES
Global variables
 Variables that are created outside of a function are known as global

variables.
 Global variables can be used by everyone, both inside of functions and

outside.
• x = "awesome"
def myfunc():
x = "fantastic"
print("Python is " + x)
myfunc()
• Local variables
 Variables that are created INSIDE of a function are known as LOCAL
variables.
• def myfunc():
global x
x = "fantastic"
myfunc()
PYTHON COMMENTS
 Comments are very important while writing a program.
 Python Interpreter ignores comment.
 Python supports two types of comments:
Single line comment:

 In case user wants to specify a single line comment, then comment must
start with (#)
Multi line comment:

 If we have comments that extend multiple lines, one way of doing it is to use
hash (#) in the beginning of each line.
 Multi lined comment can be given inside triple quotes.
DATA TYPES
 Data Type represent the type of data present inside a variable
 Python has the following data types built-in by default, in these

categories:
Text Type: str

Numeric Types: int, float, complex
Sequence Types: list, tuple, range
Mapping Type: dict
Set Types: set, frozenset
Boolean Type: bool
Binary Types: bytes, bytearray, memoryview
SETTING THE DATA TYPE
Data Type Sample Example

str x = "Hello World" x = str("Hello World")
int x = 20 x = int(20)
float x = 20.5 x = float(20.5)
complex x = 1j x = complex(1j)
list x = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"] x = list(("apple", "banana", "cherry"))
tuple x = ("apple", "banana", "cherry") x = tuple(("apple", "banana", "cherry"))
range x = range(6) x = range(6)
dict x = {"name" : "John", "age" : 36} x = dict(name="John", age=36)
set x = {"apple", "banana", "cherry"} x = set(("apple", "banana", "cherry"))
SETTING THE DATA TYPE
Data Type Sample Example

x = frozenset(("apple",
frozenset x = frozenset({"apple", "banana", "cherry"}) "banana", "cherry"))
x = bool(5)
bool x = True
x = bytes(5)
bytes x = b"Hello"
x = bytearray(5)
bytearray x = bytearray(5)
x = memoryview(bytes(5))
memoryview x = memoryview(bytes(5))
ESCAPE CHARACTERS
• New line
• Horizontal tab
• Back space
• Vertical tab
• Single quote
• Double quote

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IDENTIFIERS ,

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

 An identifier is nothing but a name given to entities like class,

functions, variables, etc.

 If you assign some name to a programmable entity in Python, then it is

nothing but technically called an identifier.

 It helps to differentiate one entity from another. Python Identifiers are

user-defined names represent a variable, function, class, module or

any other object.

For example Names like

 An identifier cannot start with a digit

 We cannot use special symbols like !, @, #, $, % etc. in our identifier.

 We cannot use reserved words as a identifiers

 Variable also known as identifier and used to hold value.

 Assigning value to variable

 We can use multiple assignments in two ways :

1. Either by assigning a single value to multiple variables in a single

2. Assigning multiple values to multiple variables.

 Variables that are created outside of a function are known as global

 Global variables can be used by everyone, both inside of functions and

 Variables that are created INSIDE of a function are known as LOCAL

 Python Interpreter ignores comment.

 Python supports two types of comments:

Single line comment:

Multi line comment:

 Multi lined comment can be given inside triple quotes.

 Python has the following data types built-in by default, in these

Text Type: str

Data Type Sample Example

Data Type Sample Example

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