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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