An Introduction to

Python & Basic

Python Syntax
By Aksadur Rahman
 Agenda

A Brief History of Python Versions

Installing Python
Variables
Data Types
Dynamic Types
Python Reserved Words
Naming Conventions
Instruction/Statement
Basic Syntax Comments
Receiving Input
Type Conversion/Casting
Numeric Data Types
Boolean Data Types
Swapping
Strings
An Introduction to Python
 An Introduction to Python

What is Python?
Python is a high-level object-oriented programming language that was created by
Guido van Rossum. It is also called general-purpose programming language as it is
used in almost every domain we can think of as mentioned below:

 Web Development
 Software Development
 Game Development
 AI & ML
 Data Analytics
 An Introduction to Python
Why Python Programming?
IEEE spectrum list of top programming language 2021. The list of programming languages is based on popularity.
 An Introduction to Python
Python is easy to understand

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A Brief History of Python
Versions
Python Version
Python 1.0
Released Date
January 1994
Python 1.5 December 31, 1997
Python 1.6 September 5, 2000
Python 2.0 October 16, 2000
Python 2.1 April 17, 2001
Python 2.2 December 21, 2001
Python 2.3 July 29, 2003
Python 2.4 November 30, 2004
Python 2.5 September 19, 2006
Python 2.6 October 1, 2008
Python 2.7 July 3, 2010
Python 3.0 December 3, 2008
Python 3.1 June 27, 2009
Python 3.2 February 20, 2011
Python 3.3 September 29, 2012
Python 3.4 March 16, 2014
Python 3.5 September 13, 2015
Python 3.6 December 23, 2016
Python 3.7 June 27, 2018
Python 3.8 October 14, 2019
 Python Software Foundation

First of all, there are the Pythons which are maintained by the people
gathered around the PSF (Python Software Foundation), a community that
aims to develop, improve, expand, and popularize Python and its
environment. The PSF's president is Guido von Rossum himself
Installing Python
Installing Python
Installing Python
Installing PyCharm
Installing PyCharm
Your First Python Program
Your First Python Program
 Variables
Variable is a name that is used to refer to memory location. It stores and manipulates data.

Variables are entities of a program that holds a value. Here is an example of a

variable:

x=100

In the below diagram, the box holds a value of 100 and is named as x. Therefore,
the variable is x, and the data it holds is the value.
Data Types
 Dynamic Types

Python is a dynamically typed language. It doesn’t know about the type of

the variable
until the code is run.

x=6

print(type(x))

x = 'hello'

print(type(x))
 Naming Conventions

Variable Names
A variable can have a short name (like x and y) or a more descriptive name (age, carname, total_volume).

Rules for Python variables:

 Rule-1: You should start variable name with an alphabet or underscore(_) character.
 Rule-2: A variable name can only contain A-Z,a-z,0-9 and underscore(_).
 Rule-3: You cannot start the variable name with a number.
 Rule-4: You cannot use special characters with the variable name such as such as $,%,#,&,@.-,^ etc.
 Rule-5: Variable names are case sensitive. For example str and Str are two different variables.
 Rule-6: Do not use reserve keyword as a variable name for example keywords like class, for, def, del, is,
else, try, from, etc.
Python Reserved Keywords
 Instruction/Statement
A statement is an instruction that a Python interpreter can execute. So, in simple
words, we can say anything written in Python is a statement.

# Statement 1
print('Hello')

# Statement 2
x = 20

# Statement 3
print(x)
Basic Syntax Comments

print('Bismillah')

# print('Bismillah')

'''
print('Bismillah')
print('Bismillah')
'''

"""
print('Bismillah')
print('Bismillah')
"""
print('Alhamdulillah')
 Receiving Input
Get user input with Python using the input() function. The user can enter keyboard input in the console

print("Enter your first name: ") name = input("Enter your first name: ")

name = input() print("Nice to meet you", name)

print("Nice to meet you", name)

 Type Conversion/Casting

Type Conversion
The process of converting the value of one data type (integer, string, float, etc.) to another
data type is called type conversion. Python has two types of type conversion.

 Implicit Type Conversion

In Implicit type conversion, Python automatically converts one data type to another data
type. This process doesn't need any user involvement.

num_int = 123
num_flo = 1.23

num_new = num_int + num_flo

print("datatype of num_int:",type(num_int))
print("datatype of num_flo:",type(num_flo))

print("Value of num_new:",num_new)
print("datatype of num_new:",type(num_new))
 Type Conversion/Casting

 Explicit Type Conversion

In Explicit Type Conversion, users convert the data type of an object to required data type. We use the
predefined functions like int(), float(), str(), etc to perform explicit type conversion.

num_int = 123 num_int = 123

num_str = "456" num_str = "456"

print("Data type of num_int:",type(num_int)) print("Data type of num_int:",type(num_int))

print("Data type of num_str:",type(num_str)) print("Data type of num_str before Type
Casting:",type(num_str))
print(num_int+num_str)
num_str = int(num_str)
print("Data type of num_str after Type Casting:",type(num_str))

num_sum = num_int + num_str

print("Sum of num_int and num_str:",num_sum)

print("Data type of the sum:",type(num_sum))
 Numeric Data Types
Python Number Types: int, float
Int
In Python, integers are zero, positive or negative whole numbers without a fractional part

num=100
print(num)

Float
In Python, floating point numbers (float) are positive and negative real numbers with a fractional part denoted by
the decimal symbol.

num=100.25
print(num)
 Boolean Data Types

boolean
The boolean value can be of two types only i.e. either True or False. The output <class ‘bool’>
indicates the variable is a boolean data type.

a = True
print(a)
print(type(a))

b = False
print(b)
print(type(b))
 Swapping

a = 10 a = 10
b = 20 a = 10
b = 20
b = 20
temp = a a = a+b
a=b a, b = b, a
b=a-b
b = temp a = a -b
print(a, b)
print(a, b) print(a, b)
 Strings
Strings are List like many other popular programming languages. Python does not have a character data type,
a single character is simply a string with a length of 1. Square brackets can be used to access elements of the
string.

a = "Hello World"
print(a)
print(a[0])
print(a[-1])
print(a[0:3])
print(a[0:])
print(a[1:])
print(a[:4])
print(a[0:-1])