Scribd
Upload
5 views3 pages

Python Basic

The document provides an introduction to running Python programs, including using the interactive interpreter and script mode. It explains how to write comments in Python, detailing single-line and multi-line comments, as well as the use of docstrings for documentation. Additionally, it describes the process of creating and executing a Python script file from the command line.

Uploaded by

ramanadhampavan123
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
5 views3 pages

Python Basic

The document provides an introduction to running Python programs, including using the interactive interpreter and script mode. It explains how to write comments in Python, detailing single-line and multi-line comments, as well as the use of docstrings for documentation. Additionally, it describes the process of creating and executing a Python script file from the command line.

Uploaded by

ramanadhampavan123
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 3

Python - Basic

First Python Program

we will run a simple program to print Hello World on the console.Python provides us the two
ways to run a program:

Using Interactive interpreter prompt


Using a script file

print ("Hello World");

Using a script file (Script Mode Programming)


The interpreter prompt is best to run the single-line statements of the code. However, we
cannot write the code every-time on the terminal. It is not suitable to write multiple lines of
code.

Using the script mode, we can write multiple lines code into a file which can be executed
later. For this purpose, we need to open an editor like notepad, create a file named and save
it with .py extension, which stands for "Python". Now, we will implement the above example
using the script mode.

Apart from that, we can also run the file using the operating system terminal. But, we should
be aware of the path of the directory where we have saved our file.

Open the command line prompt and navigate to the directory.


We need to type the python keyword, followed by the file name and hit enter to run the
Python file.
Comments in Python
Python provides the facility to write comments in two ways- single line comment and multi-
line comment.

Types of Comments in Python


In Python, there are 3 types of comments. They are described below:

Single-Line Comments
Single-line remarks in Python have shown to be effective for providing quick descriptions for
parameters, function definitions, and expressions. A single-line comment of Python is the
one that has a hashtag # at the beginning of it and continues until the finish of the line. If the
comment continues to the next line, add a hashtag to the subsequent line and resume the
conversation. Consider the accompanying code snippet, which shows how to use a single
line comment:

Code

# This code is to show an example of a single-line comment


print( 'This statement does not have a hashtag before it' )
Output:

This statement does not have a hashtag before it


The following is the comment:

# This code is to show an example of a single-line comment


The Python compiler ignores this line.

Multi-Line Comments
Python does not provide the facility for multi-line comments. However, there are indeed
many ways to create multi-line comments.

With Multiple Hashtags (#)


In Python, we may use hashtags (#) multiple times to construct multiple lines of comments.
Every line with a (#) before it will be regarded as a single-line comment.

Code

# it is a
# comment
# extending to multiple lines
In this case, each line is considered a comment, and they are all omitted
Using String Literals

Because Python overlooks string expressions that aren't allocated to a variable, we can
utilize them as comments.

Code
'it is a comment extending to multiple lines'
We can observe that on running this code, there will be no output; thus, we utilize the strings
inside triple quotes(""") as multi-line comments.

Python Docstring
The strings enclosed in triple quotes that come immediately after the defined function are
called Python docstring. It's designed to link documentation developed for Python modules,
methods, classes, and functions together. It's placed just beneath the function, module, or
class to explain what they perform. The docstring is then readily accessible in Python using
the __doc__ attribute.

You might also like