APPLICATION LABORATORY II

Sherina Sally

Python Fundamentals Department of ICT

Faculty of Technology,
University of Colombo

OUTLINE

• Python Indentation

• Python Statements and Comments

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• Python Keywords

• Basic I/O functions

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 INDENTATION IN PYTHON

• C++, C, Java, C# uses indentation for readability

• Python uses to indicate a block of code

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• At least one space is required

• Use the same amount of spaces for all the lines in the block

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STATEMENTS
• Instructions which the Python interpreter can execute

• Simple statements denote a single line of code

• No semicolon (;) at the end
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• Multiple simple statements can occur in a single line: separate using (;)

• Multi-line statements denote a continuation of a statement

• Use the continuation character (\) or parentheses ( ), [ ], { }

• Compound statements contains a group of other statements

• Spans across multiple lines

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 STATEMENTS …(2)

if x > 1:
x = 10 y = “Hello ” \ print(“X is greater than 1")
“I’m Ann. ”\ else:
Simple statement “What is your name ? ” print(“X is less than 1")

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Compound statement
x = 10; p = 20; q = 4
z = (1 + 2 + 3 +
Simple statements in a single line 4+5+6+
7+8+9)

Multi-line statement

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COMMENTS
• Increase understandability of a program

# A single line comment

• Ignored by the interpreter

• Single line comments can be applied by using (#) # A multi-line comment

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# can be denoted
# as a single line comment
• No explicit way of denoting a multi-line comment
# in multiple lines
• Use multiple single line comments

• Use triple single quotes (‘ ‘ ‘ ) or triple double quotes (“ ” ”) ‘’’ This is another way
to denote a
multi-line comment ‘’’

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RESERVED KEYWORDS

False await except in raise

None break finally is return

True class for lambda try

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and def from nonlocal while

as del global not with

assert elif if or yield

async else import pass

Python version 3.9.0

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USER INPUTS
• User inputs are important when the program needs values externally

• input() function gets a text value as user input

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x = input(“Enter your name:”)

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DISPLAY OUTPUT
• Outputs that are intended to display by the program to the console

• print() function prints the text between the quotes

print(‘ Welcome to Python ‘)

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• Displays dynamic values

a = “Micheal”
print(“ First program of “, a)

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FORMATTED OUTPUT …(1)

• Similar to placeholders in C language

% [flags] [width] [.precision] type

Type of conversion
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Applies to certain conversions

Digits after the decimal point

Minimum width of the output

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FORMATTED OUTPUT …(2)
<type> Conversion Type
print(“%4.2f“ %(3.235)) d, i, u Decimal integer >>> print(“ %3d “ %1)
x, X Hexadecimal integer
o Octal integer

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f, F Floating point
e, E Exponential >>> 1
3.23
g, G Floating point or Exponential
c Single character
s, r, a String
% Single '%' character

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