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Unit1 Topic Variables, Expressions and Statements

Variables allow us to store and name values in Python. They have no type and no need to be declared. A variable is assigned a value using the = operator. Statements contain instructions while expressions combine values and operators. The tuple assignment feature allows assigning values from a tuple on the right to variables in a tuple on the left. This can be used to swap variables or unpack values from containers like lists and strings.

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Unit1 Topic Variables, Expressions and Statements

Variables allow us to store and name values in Python. They have no type and no need to be declared. A variable is assigned a value using the = operator. Statements contain instructions while expressions combine values and operators. The tuple assignment feature allows assigning values from a tuple on the right to variables in a tuple on the left. This can be used to swap variables or unpack values from containers like lists and strings.

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Unit 1

Topic - Variables
By
Ms.T.R.Thamizhvani
VARIABLES:

• A variable allows us to store a value by assigning it to a name,


which can be used later.
• Named memory locations to store values.
• Programmers generally choose names for their variables that
are meaningful.
• It can be of any length. No space is allowed.
• We don't need to declare a variable before using it. In Python,
we simply assign a value to a variable and it will exist.
Assigning value to variable:
 
Value should be given on the right side of assignment
operator(=) and variable on left side.
• >>>counter =45
• print(counter)
• Assigning a single value to several variables simultaneously:
• >>> a=b=c=100
• Assigning multiple values to multiple variables:
• >>> a,b,c=2,4,"ram"
Unit-1
Topic – Statements and Expressions
STATEMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS:

Statements:
• Instructions that a Python interpreter can executes are called
statements.
• -A statement is a unit of code like creating a variable or displaying a
value.
• >>> n = 17
• >>> print(n)
• Here, The first line is an assignment statement that gives a value to n.
• The second line is a print statement that displays the value of n.
Expressions:
An expression is a combination of values, variables, and operators.

A value all by itself is considered an expression, and also a variable.So the


following are all legal expressions:
• >>>  42
• 42
• >>>  a=2
• >>>  a+3+2
• 7
• >>>  z=("hi"+"friend")
• >>>  print(z)
• Hifriend
Topic – Tuple Assignment
TUPLE ASSIGNMENT
 
• An assignment to all of the elements in a tuple using a single assignment statement.
• Python has a very powerful tuple assignment feature that allows a tuple of variables
on the left of an assignment to be assigned values from a tuple on the right of the
assignment.
• The left side is a tuple of variables; the right side is a tuple of values.
•
Each value is assigned to its respective variable.
• All the expressions on the right side are evaluated before any of the assignments.
This feature makes tuple assignment quite versatile.
•
Naturally, the number of variables on the left and the number of values on the right
 

have to be the same.


• >>> (a, b, c, d) = (1, 2, 3, “Hi”)
  

• Value Error: need more than 3 values to unpack


Example:

• It is useful to swap the values of two variables. With conventional assignment


statements, we have to use a temporary variable. For example, to swap a and b:
 
• Swap two numbers
• a=2;b=3
• print(a,b)
• temp = a
• a=b
• b = temp
• print(a,b)
• Output:
• (2, 3)
• (3, 2)
• >>> 
Tuple assignment solves this problem neatly:
• (a, b) = (b, a)
One way to think of tuple assignment is as tuple packing/unpacking.

In tuple packing, the values on the left are ‘packed’ together in a tuple:
• >>> b = ("George", 25, "20000")    # tuple packing

In tuple unpacking, the values in a tuple on the right are ‘unpacked’ into the variables/names on the right:
• >>> b = ("George", 25, "20000") # tuple packing
• >>> (name, age, salary) = b # tuple unpacking
• >>>   name
• 'George'
• >>>   age
• 25
• >>>   salary
• '20000'

The right side can be any kind of sequence (string, list, tuple)
Example:

To split an email address in to user name and a domain


• >>>     mailid='[email protected]'
• >>>     name,domain=mailid.split('@')
• >>>     print (name)
• god
• print (domain)
• abc.org

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