Python basics

Class -12
CHAPTER -1

By-
Rakesh Kumar Gupta
PGT CS
SG Public School MGS
 Python (a computer language)
• In last class we have learned about Python. In this class we will
learn Python with some new techniques.
• We know that Python is a powerful and high level language and it is
an interpreted language.
• Python gives us two modes of working-
– Interactive mode
– Script mode

ScriptMode
Interactive
Mode
 Python (a computer language)
• It is possible to develop various Apps with Python
like–
– GUI Apps
– Web Apps
– Games
– DBMS Apps
– Scripting etc.

Python (a computer language)- Limitations

There are few limitations in Python which can be neglected
because of its vast usage.
It is not a Fast Language.
Libraries are very less.
It is week in Type binding.
It is not easy to convert in some other language.
 Tokens
• Token- is the smallest unit of any programming language.
It is also known as Lexical Unit. Types of token are-
i. Keywords
ii. Identifiers (Names)
iii. Literals
iv. Operators
v. Punctuators

Keywords
Keywords are those words which
provides a special meaning to interpreter.
These are reserved for specific functioning.
These can not be used as identifiers,
variable name or any other purpose.
Available keywords in Python are-
 Identifiers
• These are building blocks of a program and are used to give names
to different parts/blocks of a program like - variable, objects, classes,
functions.
• An identifier may be a combination of letters and numbers.
• An identifier must begin with an alphabet or an underscore( _
). Subsequent letters may be numbers(0-9).
• Python is case sensitive. Uppercase characters are distinct
from lowercase characters (P and p are different for interpreter).
• Length of an Identifier is unlimited.
• Keywords can not be used as an identifier.
• Space and special symbols are not permitted in an identifier name
except an underscore( _ ) sign.
• Some valid identifiers are –
• Myfile, Date9_7_17, Z2T0Z9, _DS, _CHK FILE13.
• Some invald identifiers are –
• DATA-REC, 29COLOR, break, [Link].
 Literals / Values
• Literals are often called Constant Values.

• Python permits following types of literals -

– String literals - “Pankaj”

– Numeric literals – 10, 13.5, 3+5j

– Boolean literals – True or False

– Special Literal None

– Literal collections
 StringLiterals
String Literal is a sequence of characters that can be a combination
of letters, numbers and special symbols, enclosed in quotation marks,
single, double or triple(“ “ or ‘ ‘ or “’ ‘”).

In python, string is of 2 types-

Single line string
Text = “Hello World” or Text = ‘Hello World’
Multi line string
Text = ‘hello\ or Text = ‘’’hello
world’ word ‘’’
 Numeric Literals
, ० वव ०

• Numeric values can be of three types -

– int (signed integers)

• Decimal Integer Literals – 10, 17, 210 etc.
• Octal Integer Literals - 0o17, 0o217 etc.
• Hexadecimal Integer Literals – 0x14, 0x2A4, 0xABD etc.

– float ( floating point real value)

• Fractional Form – 2.0, 17.5 -13.5, -.00015 etc.
• Exponent Form - -1.7E+8, .25E-4 etc.

– complex (complex numbers)

• 3+5i etc.
• It can contain either of only two values – True or
Boolean Literals False
A= True
B=False

• None, which means nothing (no value).

Special Literals  X = None
 Operators
• An Operator is a symbol that trigger some action when
applied to identifier (s)/ operand (s)
• Therefore, an operator requires operand (s) to compute
upon. example :
c=a+b
Here, a, b, c are operands and operators are = and + which
are performing differently.
Punctuators
• In Python, punctuators are used to construct the program
and to make balance between instructions and statements.
Punctuators have their own syntactic and semantic
significance.
• Python has following Punctuators -
‘,”,#,\,(,),[,],{,},@.,,:,..`,=
 DATA TYPES
• Data can be of any type like- character, integer, real, string.
• Anything enclosed in “ “ is considered as string in Python.
• Any whole value is an integer value.
• Any value with fraction part is a real value.
• True or False value specifies boolean value.
• Python supports following core data types-
I. Numbers (int like10, 5) (float like 3.5, 302.24) (complex like 3+5j)
II. String (like “pankaj”, ‘pankaj’, ‘a’, “a” )
III. List like [3,4,5,”pankaj”] its elements are Mutable.
IV. Tuple like(3,4,5,”pankaj”) its elements are immutable.
V. Dictionary like {‘a’:1, ‘e’:2, ‘I’:3, ‘o’:4, ‘u’:5} where a,e,i,o,u are keys
and 1,2,3,4,5 are their values.
 CORE DATA TYPES

Graphical View

CORE
DATA TYPE

Numbers None Sequences Mappings

Floating
Integer Complex String Tuple List Dictionary
Point

Boolean
 Variables and Values
An important fact to know is-
– In Python, values are actually objects.
– And their variable names are actually their reference names.
Suppose we assign 10 to a variable A.
A=10
Here, value 10 is an object and A is its reference name.
10

Reference Object
variable
 Variables and Values
If we assign 10 to a variable B,
B will refer to same object.

10
Here, we have two variables,
but with same location.
Reference Object
Now, if we change value of B like variable
B=20
Then a new object will be created with 20

a new location 20 and this object will

be referenced by B. 10
 Mutable and Immutable Types
Following data types comes under mutable and
immutable types-

• Mutable (Changeable)
– lists, dictionaries and sets.

• Immutable (Non-Changeable)
– integers, floats, Booleans, strings and tuples.
 Operators
• The symbols that shows a special behavior or
action when applied to operands are called
operators. For ex- + , - , > , < etc.
• Python supports following operators-
I. Arithmetic Operator
II. Relation Operator
III. Identity Operators
IV. Logical Operators
V. Bitwise Operators
VI. Membership Operators
 Operator Associativity
• In Python, if an expression or statement consists
of multiple or more than one operator then
operator associativity will be followed from left-to-
right.

• In above given expression, first 7*8 will be calculated as 56, then 56 will
be divided by 5 and will result into 11.2, then 11.2 again divided by 2
and will result into 5.0.
*Only in case of **, associativity will be followed from right-to-left.

Above given example will be calculated as 3**(3**2).

 Type Casting
• As we know, in Python, an expression may be consists of
mixed datatypes. In such cases, python changes data types
of operands internally. This process of internal data type
conversion is called implicit type conversion.
• One other option is explicit type conversion which is like-
<datatype> (identifier)
For ex-
a=“4”
b=int(a)
Another ex-
If a=5 and b=10.5 then we can convert a to float.
Like d=float(a)
In python, following are the data conversion functions-
(1) int ( ) (2) float( ) (3) complex( ) (4) str( ) (5) bool( )
 Taking Input in Python
• In Python, input () function is used to take input which takes input in the
form of string. Then it will be type casted as per requirement. For ex- to
calculate volume of a cylinder, program will be as-

• Its output will be as-

 Types of statements in Python
• In Python, statements are of 3 types-

» Empty Statements
• pass
» Simple Statements (Single Statement)
• name=input (“Enter your Name “)
• print(name) etc.
» Compound Statements
• <Compound Statement Header>:
<Indented Body containing multiple simple
statements/compound statements>

• Here, Header line starts with the keyword and ends at colon (:).
• The body consists of more than one simple Python statements or
compound statements.
 Statement Flow Control
• In a program, statements executes in sequential
manner or in selective manner or in iterative
manner.
Sequential Selective Iterative
 Python -----if Statements
• In Python, if statement is used to select statement
for processing. If execution of a statement is to be
done on the basis of a condition, if statement is to be
used. Its syntax is-
if <condition>:
statement(s)
like -
 Python---if-else Statements
• If out of two statements, it is required to select one
statement for processing on the basis of a condition,
if-else statement is to be used. Its syntax is-
if <condition>:
statement(s) when condition is true
else:
statement(s) when condition is false
like -
Nested If -else
 Loop/Repetitive Task/Iteration
These control structures are used for repeated
execution of statement(s) on the basis of a condition.
Loop has 3 main components-
1. Start (initialization of loop)
2. Step (moving forward in loop )
3. Stop (ending of loop)

Python has following loops-

– for loop
– while loop
 range () Function
• In Python, an important function is range( ). its
syntax is-
range ( <lower limit>,<upper limit>)
If we write - range (0,5 )
Then a list will be created with the values [0,1,2,3,4] i.e. from
lower limit to the value one less than ending limit.

range (0,10,2) will have the list [0,2,4,6,8].

range (5,0,-1) will have the list [5,4,3,2,1].
 Jump Statements
break Statement

while <test-condition>: for <var> in <sequence>:

statement1 statement1
if <condition>: if <condition>:
break break
statement2 statement2
statement3
statement3
Statement4
Statement4
statement5 statement5
 Jump Statements
break Statement

Output
Output
 in and not in operator
• in operator-
3 in [1,2,3,4] will return True.
5 in [1,2,3,4] will return False.

– not in operator-
5 not in [1,2,3,4] will return True.
 Jump Statements
continue Statement

Output of both the program---

Nested Loop

OUTPUT
 String Creation
• String can be created in following ways-
1. By assigning value directly to the variable
String Literal

2. By taking Input

Input ( ) always return input in

the form of a string.
 Traversal of a string
• Process to access each and every character of a string
for the purpose of display or for some other purpose is
called string traversal.
Output

Program to print a String after reverse -

Output
 String Operators
• There are 2 operators that can be used to work upon
strings + and *.
»+ (it is used to join two strings)
• Like - “tea” + “pot” will result into “teapot”
• Like- “1” + “2” will result into “12”
• Like – “123” + “abc” will result into “123abc”

» * (it is used to replicate the string)

• like - 5*”@” will result into “@@@@@”
• Like - “go!” * 3 will result “go!go!go!”

note : - “5” * “6” expression is invalid.

 String Slicing
• Look at following examples carefully-
Index 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Word R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
Reverse index -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1

word = “RESPONSIBILITY”

word[ 0 : 14 ] will result into‘RESPONSIBILITY’

word[ 0 : 3] will result into‘RES’

word[ 2 : 5 ] will result into‘SPO’

word[ -7 : -3 ] will result into‘IBIL’

word[ : 14 ] will result into‘RESPONSIBILITY’

word[ : 5 ] will result into ‘RESPO’

word[ 3 : ] will result into ‘PONSIBILITY’
 String Functions
[Link]() Converts first character to Capital Letter

[Link]() Returns the Lowest Index of Substring

[Link]() Returns Index of Substring

[Link]() Checks Alphanumeric Character

[Link]() Checks if All Characters are Alphabets

[Link]() Checks Digit Characters

[Link]() Checks if all Alphabets in a [Link] Lowercase

[Link]() returns if all characters are uppercase characters

[Link]() Returns a Concatenated String

[Link]() returns lowercased string

[Link]() returns uppercased string

len() Returns Length of an Object

ord() returns Unicode code point for Unicode character

reversed() returns reversed iterator of a sequence

slice() creates a slice object specified by range()

 List Creation
• List is a standard data type of Python. It is a sequence which
can store values of any kind.
• List is represented by square brackets “ [ ] “
For ex -
• [] Empty list
• [1, 2, 3] integers list
• [1, 2.5, 5.6, 9] numbers list (integer and float)
• [ ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’] characters list
• [‘a’, 1, ‘b’, 3.5, ‘zero’] mixed values list
• [‘one’, ’two’, ’three’] string list
• In Python, only list and dictionary are mutable data types, rest
of all the data types are immutable data types.
 List Creation
• List can be created in following ways-
• Empty list -
L=[]
• list can also be created with the following statement-
L = list( )

• Long lists-
even = [0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ,12 ,14 ,16 ,18 ,20 ] This is a Tuple
• Nested list -
L=[3,4,[5,6],7]

Another method
 List Creation
-As we have seen in the example
That when we have supplied
values as numbers to a list even then
They have automatically converted to string
– If we want to pass values to a list in numeric form then we have to write following
function -
eval(input())
L=eval(input(“Enter list to be added “))

eval ( ) function identifies type of the passed string and then return it.

Another example

String Values
 Accessing a List
• First we will see the similarities between a List and a String.
• List is a sequence like a string.
• List also has index of each of its element.
• Like string, list also has 2 index, one for forward indexing (from
0, 1, 2, 3, ….to n-1) and one for backward indexing(from -n to -
1).
• In a list, values can be accessed like string.
Forward index 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
List R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
Backward index -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
 Accessing a List
• len( ) function is used to get the length of a list.

Important 1:membership
operator (in, not in) works
in list similarly as they
work in other sequence.

• L[ i ] will return the values exists at i index.

• L [ i : j ] will return a new list with the values from i index to j index
excluding j index.

Important 2: + operator
adds a list at the end of
other list whereas *
operator repeats a list.
 Difference between a List and a String
• Main difference between a List and a string is that string is
immutable whereas list is mutable.
• Individual values in string can’t be change whereas it is
possible with list.

Value didn’t
change in string.
Error shown. Value got changed
in list specifying
list is mutable
 Traversal of a list
• Traversal of a list means to access and process each and
every element of that list.
• Traversal of a list is very simple with for loop –

for <item> in <list>:

*Python supports UNICODE therefore

output in Hindi is also possible
 List Operations (+, *)
• Main operations that can be performed on lists are joining list,
replicating list and list slicing.
• To join Lists,+ operator , is used which joins a list at the end of
other list. With + operator, both the operands should be of list
type otherwise error will be generated.

• To replicate a list, * operator , is used.

 List Operations (Slicing)
• To slice a List, syntax is seq = list [ start : stop ]

• Another syntax for List slicing is –

seq=list[start:stop:step]
 Use of slicing for list Modification
• Look carefully at following examples-

New value is being assigned here.

Here also, new value is being assigned.

See the difference between both the results.

144 is a value and not a sequence.

 List Functions and Methods
– Python provides some built-in functions for list manipulation
– Syntax is like <list-object>.<method-name>
Function Details

[Link](<item>) Returns the index of passed items.

[Link](<item>) Adds the passed item at the end of list.

[Link](<list>) Append the list (passed in the form of argument) at the end of list
with which function is called.
[Link](<pos>,<item>) Insert the passed element at the passed position.

[Link](<index>) Delete and return the element of passed index. Index passing is
optional, if not passed, element from last will be deleted.
[Link](<value>) It will delete the first occurrence of passed value but does not
return the deleted value.
 List Functions and Methods
Function Details

[Link] ( ) It will delete all values of list and gives an empty list.

[Link] (<item>) It will count and return number of occurrences of the passed element.

[Link] ( ) It will reverse the list and it does not create a new list.

[Link] ( ) It will sort the list in ascending order. To sort the list in descending
order, we need to write----- [Link](reverse =True).
 Creation of Tuple
• In Python, “( )” parenthesis are used for tuple creation.
() empty tuple
( 1, 2, 3) integers tuple
( 1, 2.5, 3.7, 7) numbers tuple
(‘a’, ’b’, ’c’ ) characters tuple
( ‘a’, 1, ‘b’, 3.5, ‘zero’) mixed values tuple
(‘one’, ’two’, ’three’, ’four’) string tuple

*Tuple is an immutable sequence whose values can not be changed.

 Creation of Tuple
Look at following examples of tuple creation carefully-
• Empty tuple:

• Single element tuple:

• Long tuple:

• Nested tuple:
 Creation of Tuple
tuple() function is used to create a tuple from other sequences.
See examples-
Tuple creation from string Tuple creation from list

Tuple creation from input

All these elements are

of character type. To
have these in different
types, need to write
following statement.-
Tuple=eval(input(“Enter
elements”))
 Accessing a Tuple
• In Python, the process of tuple accessing is same as
with list. Like a list, we can access each and every
element of a tuple.
• Similarity with List- like list, tuple also has index. All
functionality of a list and a tuple is same except mutability.
Forward index 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Tuple R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
Backward index -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1

• len ( ) function is used to get the length of tuple.

 Accessing a Tuple
• Indexing and Slicing:
• T[ i ] returns the item present at index i.
• T[ i : j ] returns a new tuple having all the items of T from
index i to j.
• T [ i : j : n ]returns a new tuple having difference of n elements of T
from index i to j.
index i to j.

• Membership operator:
• Working of membership operator “in” and “not in” is same as
in a list. (for details see the chapter- list manipulation).
• Concatenation and Replication operators:
• + operator adds second tuple at the end of first tuple. * operator repeats
elements of tuple.
 Accessing a Tuple
• Accessing Individual elements-

• Traversal of a Tuple –
for <item> in <tuple>:
#to process every element.

OUTPUT
 Tuple Operations
• Tuple joining
• Both the tuples should be there to add
with +.

• Some errors in tuple joining-

• In Tuple + number
• In Tuple + complex number
• In Tuple + string
• In Tuple + list
• Tuple + (5) will also generate error because when adding a tuple
with a single value, tuple will also be considered as a value and not a
tuple..

• Tuple Replication-
 Tuple Slicing

Tuple will show till last element of list irrespective of

upper limit.

Every alternate element will be shown.

Every third element will be shown.

 Dictionary Creation
• To create a dictionary, it is needed to collect pairs of
key:value in “{ }”.
• <dictionary-name>={ <key1>:<value1>,<key2>:<value2>,<key3>:<value3>. . .
} Example:
teachers={“Rajeev”:”Math”, “APA”:”Physics”,”APS”:”Chemistry:”SB”:”CS”}
In above given example :

Key-value pair Key Value

“Rajeev”:”Math” “Rajeev” “Math”
“APA”:”Physics” “APA” “Physics”
“APS”:”Chemistry” “APA” “Chemistry”
“SB”:”CS” “SB” “CS”
 Dictionary Creation
• Some examples of Dictionary are-
Dict1= { } # this is an empty dictionary without any element.

DayofMonth= { January”:31, ”February”:28, ”March”:31, ”April”:30, ”May”:31, ”June”:30,

”July”:31, ”August”:31, ”September”:30, ”October”:31, ”November”:30,
”December”:31}

FurnitureCount = { “Table”:10, “Chair”:13, “Desk”:16, “Stool”:15, “Rack”:15 }

– By above examples you can easily understand about the keys

and their values.
– One thing to be taken care of is that keys should always be of
immutable type.
Note: Dictionary is also known as associative array or mapping
or hashes .
 Dictionary Creation
– Keys should always be of immutable type.

– If you try to make keys as mutable, python shown error in it.

For example-

Here key is a list which is

of mutable type.

Here error shows that you are trying to create a

key of mutable type which is not permitted.
 Accessing a Dictionary
• To access a value from dictionary, we need to use key
similarly as we use an index to access a value from a list.
• We get the key from the pair of Key: value.

teachers={“Rajeev”:”Math”, “APA”:”Physics”,”APS”:”Chemistry:”SB”:”CS”}

• If we execute following statement from above example-

• We have selected key “Rajeev” and on printing it, Math got

printed. Another example-

If we access a non-key, error will come.

 Traversal of a Dictionary
• To traverse a Dictionary, we use for loop. Syntax is-

for <item> in <dictionary>:

Here, notable thing is that every key of each pair of

dictionary d is coming in k variable of loop. After
this we can take output with the given format and
with print statement.

Assignment : Develop a dictionary of your friends in which key

will be your friend’s name and his number will be its value.
 Traversal of Dictionary
• To access key and value we need to use keys() and
values().for example-

• [Link]( ) function will display only key.

• [Link] ( ) function will display value only.
 Features of Dictionary
1. Unordered set: dictionary is a unordered collection of key:value pairs.
2. Not a sequence: like list, string and tuple , it is not a sequence because
it is a collection of unordered elements whereas a sequence is a collection
of indexed numbers to keep them in order.
3. Keys are used for its indexing because according to Python key can be of
immutable type. String and numbers are of immutable type and therefore
can be used as a key. Example of keys are as under-

Key of a Dictionary should always be of

immutable type like number, string or tuple
whereas value of a dictionary can be of any type.
 Features of Dictionary
4. Keys should be unique : Because keys are used to identify
values so they should be unique.
5. Values of two unique keys can be same.
6. Dictionary is mutable hence we can change value of a certain
key. For this, syntax is-

<dictionary>[<key>] = <value>

4. Internally it is stored as a mapping. Its key:value are

connected to each other via an internal function called hash-
function**. Such process of linking is knows as mapping.
**Hash-function is an internal algorithm to link a and
its value.
 Working with Dictionary
• Here we will discuss about various operation of dictionary like element
adding, updation, deletion of an element etc. but first we will learn creation
of a dictionary.
• Dictionary initialization- For this we keep collection of pairs of
key:value separated by comma (,) and then place this
collection inside “{ }”.

• Addition of key:value pair to an empty dictionary. There are

two ways to create an empty dictionary-
1. Employee = { }
2. Employee = dict( )
After that use following syntax-
<dictionary>[<key>] = <value>
 Working with Dictionary
3. Creation of a Dictionary with the pair of name and
value: dict( ) constructor is used to create dictionary
with the pairs of key and value. There are various
methods for this-
I. By passing Key:value pair as an argument:

The point to be noted is that here no inverted commas were placed

in argument but they came automatically in dictionary.

II. By specifying Comma-separated key:value pair-

 Working with Dictionary
III. By specifying Keys and values separately:
For this, we use zip() function in dict ( ) constructor-

IV. By giving Key:value pair in the form of separate sequence:

By passing List

By passing tuple of a list

By passing tuple of tuple

 Adding an element in Dictionary
following syntax is used to add an element in Dictionary-

Nesting in Dictionary
look at the following example carefully in which element of a dictionary is
a dictionary itself.
 Updation in a Dictionary
following syntax is used to update an element in Dictionary-
<dictionary>[<ExistingKey>]=<value>

WAP to create a dictionary containing names of employee as key and their salary as
value. Output
 Deletion of an element from a Dictionary
following two syntaxes can be used to delete an element form a
Dictionary. For deletion, key should be there otherwise python
will give error.
1. del <dictionary>[<key>]- it only deletes the value and
does not return deleted value.

Value did not return after deletion.

2. <dictionary>.pop(<key>) it returns the deleted value

after deletion.

Value returned after deletion.

If key does not match, given

message will be printed.
 Detection of an element from a Dictionary
Membership operator is used to detect presence of an element
in a Dictionary.
1. <key> in <dictionary> it gives true on finding the key otherwise gives false.
2. <key> not in <dictionary> it gives true on not finding the key otherwise gives false.

False

* in and not in does not apply

on values, they can only
work with keys.
 Pretty Printing of a Dictionary
To print a Dictionary in a beautify manner, we need to import
json module. After that following syntax of dumps ( ) will be used.

[Link](<>,indent=<n>)
Program to create a dictionary by counting words in a line

Here a dictionary is
created of words
and their frequency.
 Dictionary Function and Method
1. len( ) Method : it tells the length of dictionary.

2. clear( ) Method : it empties the dictionary.

3. get( ) Method : it returns value of the given key.

It works similarly as <dictionary>[<key>]

On non finding of a key, default message can

be given.
 Dictionary Function and Method
4. items( ) Method : it returns all items of a dictionary in the form
of tuple of (key:value).

5. keys( ) Method : it returns list of dictionary keys.

6. values( ) Method : it returns list of dictionary values.

 Dictionary Function and Method
7. Update ( ) Method: This function merge the pair of key:value
of a dictionary into other dictionary. Change and addition in
this is possible as per need. Example-

In the above given example, you can see that change is done in
the values of similar keys whereas dissimilar keys got joined with
their values.
Thank you