PYTHON LECTURE NOTES

INTRODUCTION

Python is one of the most popular programming languages. It delivers both the power and general
applicability of traditional compiled languages with the ease of use of simpler scripting and interpreted languages.
Python is developed by Guido van Rossum.

Applications of Python:
Python is used to develop
✔ Artificial Intelligence Applications
✔ Automation and Web Applications
✔ GUI (Graphical User Interface) Applications
✔ Scientific and Business Applications
✔ Console Based Applications
✔ Audio & Video Based Applications
✔ Image Processing & 3D CAD Applications
✔ Enterprise Applications

Features of Python:
The following are set of python features that describes about python.
High Level:
Python is a high level language with more powerful concepts like lists, tuples and dictionaries. With help
of these concepts one can minimizes the development time as well as code size.
Object Oriented:
Object-oriented programming (OOP) adds another dimension to structured and procedural languages
where data and logic are discrete elements of programming. OOP allows for associating specific behaviors,
characteristics, and/or capabilities with the data that they execute on or are representative of. Python is an object-
oriented (OO) language, all the way down to its core. However, Python is not just an OO language like Java or Ruby.
It is actually a pleasant mix of multiple programming paradigms. For instance, it even borrows a few things from
functional languages like Lisp and Haskell.
Scalable
Python is scalable where we can grow our code from project to project, add other new or existing Python
elements, and reuse code.
Extensible
As the amount of Python code increases in your project, you will still be able to organize it logically by
separating your code into multiple files, or modules, and be able to access code from one module and attributes
from another.
Portable
Python can be found on a wide variety of systems, contributing to its continued rapid growth in today's
computing domain. Because Python is written in C, and because of C's portability, Python is available on practically
every type of platform that has an ANSI C compiler.
Easy to Learn
Python has relatively few keywords, simple structure, and a clearly defined syntax. This allows anyone to
pick up the language in a relatively short period of time.
Easy to Read
Python making it easier for others to understand your code faster and vice versa. Because of its syntax
and styles.
Easy to Maintain
Maintaining source code is part of the software development lifecycle. Much of Python's success is that
source code is fairly easy to maintain, dependent, of course, on size and complexity.
Robust
Python even gives you the ability to monitor for errors and take an evasive course of action if such an
error does occur during runtime. Python's robustness is beneficial for both the software designer and the user.
There is also some accountability when certain errors occur that are not handled properly. The stack trace that is
generated as a result of an error reveals not only the type and location of the error, but also in which module the
erroneous code resides.

Where can I get the python Installer file ?

Visit python official website link
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ for windows and
https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/ for mac and
https://www.python.org/download/other/ for other platforms.
Now download the recent installer that matches your operating system version.Now install python with the help of
the file that you just downloaded.

Running Python
We can run python programs in command prompt itself by using python command.
In above screenshot >>> is called as python prompt where python programs will be typed and executed.

For example in the above pic, a small program is written in which a variable x is initialized with the value 10 and it
is printed.
It is possible to type and save our python programs through text editors like notepad and we can execute
the program with python command.
Example:
For example a small python program is typed using text editor and saved it as example.py
Now we can execute the same program by using python command in command prompt as follows.

How to read input from user in python?

In python we can read input from user by using a method “input”. Syntax is as follows.
Syntax:
input(“message”)
Example:

#program to read input from user

 x = int(input("enter x value"))
y = int(input("enter y value"))
print (x+y)

Output

In above program both the values are concatenated because “input” method always reads the user inputs as
strings. We must convert those values into numbers before performing arithmetic operations. These concepts will
be explained after datatypes.

Python
PYTHONSyntax and &
SYNTAX Style
STYLE
i) Blocks are represented by indentation instead of curly braces.
For example while writing a block with if condition (or any type of block), please observe that
curly braces are not used to indicate starting and ending of the block. Instead of that indentation
is used. All the statements in that block are maintained the same indentation (spaces).
Example:

x = 10

if(x==10) :

print ("x value is 10")

print ("Hello I am also within the block only")

print ("This is out of block statement")

In the above example colon ( : ) indicates the starting of the block. All the statements in the
block are maintain the same indentation (at least one space - generally 4 or 8 spaces to improve
understanding ability but not mandatory).
First 2 print statements maintained the same indentation (spaces at starting position) after colon
that indicates these two statements are belonged to the ‘ if ’ block.
 Third print statement is written without indentation means it is not related to that block.
output

ii) How to write comments in python ?

We can write comments by using the symbol hash (#).
Example

#This is a comment
x = 10 #this comment starts from here

Generally writing comments is good programming habit. It will improve program understand
ability and we can temporarily suspend executing some statements by putting them in
comments.
iii) Continuation ( \ ) operator
While developing projects, there are some cases where a single statement may occupies more
than one line. In that case if we use continuation operator then python interpreter can
understand and treat those multiple line statement as single statement.
Example

x = “hello my channel name is ” +\

“Python Tutorial”

In the above example \ is placed at the end of first statement that indicates next line also
belonged to this statement only.
iv) Suites or Blocks
 As mentioned in above examples, blocks are not represented by curly braces in python. Instead
of it colon and indentation are used. Colon indicates the starting of a block and indentation
indicates the statements that are belonged to the particular block.
Example

If(condition):
Statement1
Statement2

Consider the above block of statements. Please observe we did not use any open curly brace to
indicate starting of the block instead we used colon ( : ) symbol which indicates some block is
started at this point. All the statements related to this block are written with some indentation.

v) Use of Semicolons ( ; )
In python semicolons are not mandatory to use at the end of each and every statement.
If more than one statement is written in the same line then we will use semicolons to
separate one from the other.

Example

x=10;y=20

vi) Variable assignments

In python there are no keywords for datatypes ( like int, float etc., ). Variables data types
are decided based on the value assigned to that variable. This type of languages are
called as dynamic typed languages (data type will be decided at runtime based on
values).

Example :

a=10 #integer
b=1.25 #float
c=1+6j #complex

#multiple assignment with same value

a = b = c = 10

#multiple assignment with different values

a,b,c = 1,2,3

As shown in above example we can assign multiple variables with same value or
multiple variables with multiple values.
Memory Management:
Python supports memory management automatically. Here we no need to allocate memory or deallocate
memory in manual way. In python we no need to declare the variables with datatypes. Whenever values are
assigned to the variables, corresponding data types will be decided and memory also allocated according to the
type. If you want to deallocate memory manually we can do that with ‘del’ statement.

Python deallocate the variables from memory, which are not in use. This process is called as Garbage
Collection.

Python Objects:
As python is object oriented language, every construct (variables etc.,) will be considered as an object.

Every object has three different characteristics.

- Identifier : unique identifier to identify each object.

- Type : To indicate which type of value it stores
- Value : value of the object.

NUMBERS IN PYTHON

Python supports following types of numbers.

- Integers (Plain Integers, Long)

- Floating Point Real Numbers
- Complex Numbers

Python numbers are immutable. That means new memory locations are allocated on changing the values
of numbers every time. Once a value is assigned in a memory location we can’t change the value.

Plain Integers :
 It is universal integer type. We can assign decimal or octal or hexadecimal values to the variables.

Example :

X = 10 #decimals

X=0 #values started with 0 are octal numbers (base 8)

X = 0x or 0X #values started with 0x or 0X are hexadecimals (base 16)

long :

Whenever we want to work with large numbers then long type will be preferred and there will
be no ranges for the datatypes. The limit is virtual memory limit only. That means we can store a long
value as big as it occupies our full virtual memory space.

Floating point real numbers :

This can store double precision decimal values. In this we can store normal decimal point values
or exponent values also.

Example:

X = 1.25

Y = 1.45E+12

Z = float(10)

Complex Numbers :

We can assign complex numbers to the python variables.

Example:

x = 1+2j

print(x.real) #retrieves the real part

print(x.imag) #retrieves the imaginary part

print(x.conjugate) #retrieves the complex conjugate of a complex number

Full Example Program with all the numbers:

#program to demonstrate numbers in python

#integers
x=4
y=5
print (x+y)

#floating point real numbers

a=1.25
b=6.78
print (a+b)
 #complex numbers
x=1+2j
print(x.real)
print(x.imag)
print(x.conjugate())

Output

CONTROL STATEMENTS IN PYTHON

Control statements in python are quite different in syntax when we compared with other languages.

If condition :

If condition syntax is as follows.

If condition:
Statement1
 Statement2
elif condittion2:
Statement1
Statement2
else:
Statements

Example :

#program to demonstrate if condition

x=int(input("enter an integer value"))

if x==15:
print("value is 15")
elif x<15:
print("x value less than 15");
else:
print("x value is greater than 15")

Output

for loop :

for loop in python uses range function. range(5) indicates 0 to 4. range(5,10) indicates 5 to 9.
range(0,10,3) indicates 0,3,6,9 (it starts from 0 and increments its value by 3 every time until the value reaches 10).

Syntax:

for i in range(n):

statements
Example:

#program to demonstrate for loop in python

for i in range(10):
print("i value is:",i)

Output:

Example2:

#program to demonstrate for loop in python

for i in range(0,10,3):
print("i value is:",i)

Output
We can run a for loop on lists also

Syntax:

for i in listname:

statements

Example 3:

#program to demonstrate for loop in python

s = [10,20,30]
for i in s:
print("i value is:",i)

Output
break statement:

break statement terminates the control from the block.

Example

#program to demonstrate break statement

for i in range(10):
if i==3:
break
print (i)

As the below output shows whenever condition met control terminated from the loop. That is why we are unable
to see the I values after 3.

Output:
continue statement:

continue statement skips the current iteration of the block.

Example:

#program to demonstrate continue statement

for i in range(10):
if i==3:
continue
print (i)

Output:

As output show continue will skip the only iteration that meets the condition. That is why only printing the value 3
is skipped and loop continued from i=4.

pass statement :

Generally pass statement do nothing. This statement will be useful in some blocks that insists us to write
at least one statement but programmatically we don’t want to write any statement including print statement.

For example consider the following example where we want to print some value in all cases except I value is 3;

Example:

#program to demonstrate pass statement

i=10
if i==3:
pass
else:
print("i value is not 3")

Output
Consider above example. I want to print I value in all cases except I value is 3. But whenever we write if condition if
expects at least one statement. So we wrote the pass statement here. So whenever i value is 3 then it does
nothing. In all other cases in prints the i value.
 SEQUENCES IN PYTHON

Sequences allow us to store elements in a particular order and we can access those elements by using
their index.

We have three types of sequences in python

1) Strings
2) Lists
3) Tuples

Strings:

Collection of characters is said to be a string. In python strings are case sensitive. So the variable ‘s’ is
different from variable ‘S’.

s = “ Python Tutorials”

s = ‘ Python Tutorials‘

We can represent strings by using single or double quotes.

Example:

#program to demonstrate strings in python

cname="Python Tutorials"
myname="J K Rowling"
print (cname)

Output

In python strings are immutable. That means we can’t change the value of a memory location related to an string
object. Every time we change the value, then a new memory location is allotted and that new reference is pointed
by the string object.

We can clear the contents of the string as follows.

 cname=""

We can remove the string from memory by using 'del' as follows.

del cname;

We can access strings by using index as below

cname="My Channel name is Python Tutorials"

We can retrieve the character at index 0 by using cname[0].

We can retrieve the substring between index 0 to 4 as cname[0:5] where 0 is inclusive and 5 is exclusive

cname[5:] returns substring starts from index 5.

Example:

#program to demonstrate strings in python

cname="My Channel name is Python Tutorials"

print ("cname[0] is :"+cname[0])

print ("cname[0:5] is :"+cname[0:5])
print ("cname[5:] is :"+cname[5:])

Output:

As shown in above example, string indexing starts from 0. And in the same way negative indexing (from -1) starts
from right to left as shown below.

s = "abcd"

Indexing is as show below.

-4 -3 -2 -1 Negative indexing

s= a b c d
 0 1 2 3 Positive indexing

len method : We can calculate length of a string in python by using len method as follows.

#program to demonstrate len method in python

cname="My Channel name is Python Tutorials"

print ("length of string cname is :",len(cname))

output:

max(string) :

max method returns the character with highest ASCII value.

min(string) :

min method returns the character with small ASCII value.

example

#program to demonstrate max method in python

cname="My Channel name is Python Tutorials"
print ("maximum of string cname is :",max(cname))

name="Python Tutorials"
print ("minimum of string name is :",min(name))

Output:
As character y has highest ASCII value among others in cname and b has small ASCII in name, these two were
returned.

Some Builtin Functions in strings :

string.capitalize()

Converts the first character to upper case

string.center(width)

Returns a centered string and sets the total length of the string to given width.

endswith(substr,beg=0,end=len(string))

Returns true if the string ends with the specified value

find(substr,beg,end)

Searches the string for a specified value and returns the position of where it was found

isalnum()

Returns True if all characters in the string are alphanumeric

isalpha()

Returns True if all characters in the string are in the alphabet

isdecimal()

Returns True if all characters in the string are decimals

isdigit()

Returns True if all characters in the string are digits

islower()

Returns True if all characters in the string are lower case

Example program :

#program to demonstarte string builtin functions

s="abcd"
print ("s.capitalize():",s.capitalize())
print("s.center(50):",s.center(50))
print("s.endswith('b',0,3):",s.endswith('b',0,3))
print("s.find('b'):",s.find('b'))
print("s.isalnum():",s.isalnum())
print("s.isalpha():",s.isalpha())
print("s.isdecimal():",s.isdecimal())
print("s.isdigit():",s.isdigit())
print("s.islower():",s.islower())

Output:

Lists:
List is a collection which is ordered and changeable. Lists always allow storing duplicate elements. Lists
are also one type of sequences.

One more important point is list can store set of objects which are of different type. That means we can
store values that are belonged to different data types in the same list. We can insert, remove elements from the
list as we want.

How to create a List?

We can create the list by using square braces [ ] as follows.

s = [1,2,3,4,5,"Python Tutorials"]

A list can also contain another list as elements

 s= [1,2,[3.5,4.2]]

How to retrieve elements from list?

We can retrieve the elements from a list by using index as follows.

s[0] - Returns first element from the list

s[2][0] - Returns 3.5 which is first element(0th index) of inner list in the main list item
3(2nd
index)
s[0:3] - Returns elements at index from 0 to 2
Update elements in a list?

we can update elements by assigning new value in place of existing one with the help of index as follows.

s[1] = 10

Above statement will replaces the element at index 1 in list s with the value 10 so new list becomes

s = [1,10,[3.5,4.2]]

How to remove an element from the list?

We can remove elements from the list using ‘del’ keyword.

del s[2]

Above statement removes 3rd element (element at index 2) from the list.

Example:

#program to demonstrate lists in python

s=[1,2,3,4.5,"PTS"]
print("s is:",s)
print("s[0]:",s[0])
print("s[0:1]:",s[0:1])
print("s[0:3]:",s[0:3])
s[1]=10
print("after update s is:",s)
del s[2]
print("after removing element s is:",s)
del s
print("after removing list s is:")
print(s)

Output:
In above output last print statement returns error because we removed entire list by using del command and then
we are trying to print the list which does not exists. so it returns not defined error.

Operators on List:

We can apply different operators on lists to check where two lists are equal or not, whether one list is
greater than or less than the other list or not etc.,

== operator is used to check whether two lists are equal or not

> operator is used to check whether the first list is greater than second list or not]

< operator is used to check whether the first list is less than the second list or not

Membership operators (in, not in): These are used to check whether an item exists in list or not. in checks whether
the specified list item exists in the list or not, not in checks whether the list item does not exists in list or not

Concatenating Lists (+): We can concatenate two lists by using the concatenate operator +

Repetition Operator (*) : We can use the repetition operator to repeat all the elements of the list for the
specified number of times.

Example:

#program to demonstrate operators on lists

s=[10,20]
s1=[10,30]
s2=[10,20]
s3=[10,40,50]
print ("s==s1:",(s==s1))
print ("s==s2:",(s==s2))
print ("s>s1:",(s>s1))
print ("s<s1:",(s<s1))
print ("s<s3:",(s<s3))
print ("10 in s:",(10 in s))
print ("11 not in s:",(11 not in s))
print ("s + s1:",(s+s1))
Output:

Built in Methods in List:

list.append(obj) : Adds an element at the end of the list

list.count(obj) : Returns the number of elements with the specified value

list.index(obj) : Returns the index of the first element with the specified value

list.insert(index,obj) : Adds an element at the specified position

list.reverse() : Reverses the order of the list

#program to demonstrate builtin methods on lists

s=[10,20]
print("initially list is:",s)

s.append(10)
print("list after appended 10:",s)

print("no of times object 10 repeated in list s is :",s.count(10))

print("no of times object 50 repeated in list s is :",s.count(50))

s.insert(1,15)
print("list after inserted 15 is:",s)

s.reverse()
print("list after applied reverse method:",s)

Output
Tuples: ( )
A tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable. In Python tuples are written with round
brackets.

It is also called as read only list which means both list and tuple are same with a small difference that once
a tuple is created with elements, we can’t update the elements.

Example:

s=(10,20,30)

We can access the tuple elements (same as list) by using index.

Example Program

#program to demonstrate tuples

s=(10,20,30)
print("elements in the tuple:",s)

s[0]=2

Output
Above program returned error because we are trying to update the value of a tuple’s element which is not
possible.
 DICTIONARIES IN PYTHON

A dictionary is a collection which is unordered, changeable and indexed. In Python dictionaries are written
with curly brackets, and they have keys and values.

Dictionary stores the elements in key-value pairs. We can access the elements by using keys. and
Dictionaries are mutable which means we can update the elements any number of times.

We can create dictionaries by using curly braces as follows

x = {'country':'India', 'channel':'Python Tutorials'}

We can access the elements of a dictionary by using keys as follows

print (x['country']) - This statement prints 'India' as output

We can insert elements at any time to the existing dictionary by using key value pairs as follows

x [' Mentor '] = ' Sushal'

We can remove element from the dictionary by using del statement

del x['country']

We can remove all elements from the dictionary by using clear() method

x.clear()

We can delete the entire dictionary also by using del statement as follows

del x

Example Program

# program to demonstrate dictionaries

x={'country':'India', 'channel':'Python Tutorials’'}

print("initially dictionary is:",x)

print("value of key country is:",x['country'])

#adding element
x['mentor']= 'Sushal'
print("Dictionary after added element is:",x)

#removing element
del x['country']
print("Dictionary after removed element is:",x)

#remove all elements from dictionary

x.clear()
print("Dictionary after removed all elements is:",x)

Output
 FUNCTIONS IN PYTHON

A function is a block of code which only runs when it is called. You can pass data, known as parameters,
into a function. A function can return data as a result.

How to create a function?

We can create functions by using def keyword as shown in following syntax.

def functionname (Argument List) :

statement1

statement2

Example :

def sum(a,b):

print (a+b)

How to call functions in python?

functions will be executed only whenever they are called. we can call the function as

functionname(optional argument values)

Example Program:

#program to demonstrate functions in python

#function definition
def sayhello():
print ("Hello Welcome to python Functions concept by PTS")

#function calling
sayhello()
Output:
In the above example we can pass the arguments also.

#program to demonstrate functions with arguments in python

#function definition
def sayhello(name,course):
print ("Hello ",name,", Welcome to ",course," by PTS")

#function calling
sayhello("Sushal","Python")

sayhello("Deva","Java")

above function only will be called whenever we call with proper arguments that means sayhello will be executed
only whenever we call with two argument values.

Output:

Setting default values to the arguments:

 We can set default values to arguments so that they will be considered when we are not passing
argument values in function calling as follows.

functionname(argument1=value1,argument2=value2):

statements

Example:

#program to demonstrate functions with default values in python

#function definition
def sayhello(name="Sushal",course="Python"):
print ("Hello ",name,", Welcome to ",course," by PTS")

#function calling
sayhello()

sayhello("Deva","Java")

Output:

In the above example please observe in first function calling, sayhello function is called without
arguments. In this type of situations python will consider the default values Sushal & Deva which are provided in
function definition. Whenever we are passing values then these passed values will be considered.
Lambda Functions :

Lambda functions are anonymous functions (functions without name) in python.

We can define lambda function by using 'lambda' keyword as follows.

lambda arg1,arg2:statements

def f(arg1,arg2):

return arg1+arg2

Example :

#program to demonstrate python lambda functions

f = lambda a,b : a+b

print(f(10,20))

Please observe that the lambda function is assigned to variable f as lambda functions does not have any name.
Whenever we call this lambda function we can call with associated name ' f '.

Output: