Reserved Words and Identifiers
Identifiers
- Names used to identify variables, functions, classes, modules, etc.
- May contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and _
- Must start with a nonnumeric character.
- Identifiers starting with _ have special meaning in Python (more later).
Python Reserved Words
and | elif | global | or |
assert | else | if | pass |
break | except | import | print |
class | exec | in | raise |
continue | finally | is | return |
def | for | lambda | try |
del | from | not | while |
- Can't use these names as identifiers.
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