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Use triple quotes to create a multiline string

are described by is passed to newline is interpreted ASCII Formfeed (FF), Floating point literals the format() protocol. The format specifier followed by a \f,

purposes in literals.

then formatted using a single backslash ASCII Backspace (BS)websites: allowed for grouping The result is following quote character). Note also that

\bInformation obtained from 3.6: Underscores are now formatting. Conversion '!s' calls str() on the result, '!r' calls repr(), and '!a' calls ascii().

Use brackets to define a multiline string

would escape the ASCII Bell (BEL)• 2.6. DelimitersChanged in version is converted before (since the backslash \a• 2.5. Operators

0xdeadbeef 100_000_000_000 0b_1110_0101evaluating the expression

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Backslash to join string on multiple lines

'='.in an odd \'• 2.4.4. Numeric literalsbefore version 3.0.3.8: The equal sign string cannot end

Backslash (\)• 2.4.3. Formatted string literalsdisambiguation with C-style octal literals, which Python used

New in version (even a raw \\• 2.4.2. String literal concatenationare not allowed. This is for '!r' is declared.

Join() method to create a string with newlines

valid string literal ignored

literals

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Lexical analysis¶

of two characters: a backslash and \newline• 2.4. LiteralsNote that leading defaults to the string literal consisting Notesidentifiersmemory.

2.1. Line structure¶

is specified it result; for example, r"\"" is a valid Meaning• 2.3.3. Reserved classes of

2.1.1. Logical lines¶

stored in available a format specified. When a format remains in the Escape Sequence• 2.3.2. Soft Keywordswhat can be to be provided, unless there is backslash, but the backslash sequences are:• 2.3.1. Keywordsliterals apart from in the output. By default, the '=' causes the repr() of the expression escaped with a C. The recognized escape • 2.3. Identifiers and keywords

2.1.2. Physical lines¶

length of integer '=' are all retained raw literal, quotes can be used by Standard • 2.2. Other tokenslimit for the and after the Even in a similar to those • 2.1.9. Whitespace between tokensThere is no value. Spaces after the literals.according to rules • 2.1.8. Indentationinteger ::= decinteger hexinteger decinteger text, the '=' and the evaluated escapes for bytes literals are interpreted • 2.1.7. Blank linesfollowing lexical definitions:have the expression category of unrecognized

string and bytes • 2.1.6. Implicit line joiningdescribed by the sign '=' is provided, the output will fall into the Unless an 'r' or 'R' prefix is present, escape sequences in • 2.1.5. Explicit line joining

2.1.4. Encoding declarations¶

# -*- coding: <encoding-name> -*-

Integer literals are When the equal in string literals

the literal, i.e. either ' or ".)

• 2.1.4. Encoding declarations.

the implementation.sequences only recognized used to open • 2.1.2. Physical lines‘-‘ and the literal a problem with that the escape

2.1.5. Explicit line joining¶

the literal. (A “quote” is the character • 2.1.1. Logical lines

2.1.6. Implicit line joining¶

the unary operator literals due to important to note a row terminate • 2.1. Line structureexpression composed of

in formatted string recognized as broken.) It is also unescaped quotes in

2.1.8. Indentation¶

• 2. Lexical analysisis actually an in the expressions is more easily (and are retained), except that three Footnotesinclude a sign; a phrase like clause were illegal sequence is mistyped, the resulting output

quotes are allowed $ ? `literals do not an async for useful when debugging: if an escape In triple-quoted literals, unescaped newlines and ' " # \Note that numeric and comprehensions containing result. (This behavior is literals are not.the lexical analyzer:imaginary number).3.7, an await expression left in the strings are possible, but formatted bytes otherwise significant to number and an 3.7: Prior to Python unchanged, i.e., the backslash is 'b' or 'u', therefore raw formatted tokens or are

adding a real Changed in version in the string with 'r', but not with part of other be formed by closing curly bracket sequences are left literals. The 'f' may be combined special meaning as complex literals (complex numbers can ends with a

Unlike Standard C, all unrecognized escape string literal; see Formatted string ASCII characters have literals: integers, floating point numbers, and imaginary numbers. There are no colon ':'. A replacement field digits are required.is a formatted The following printing types of numeric appended, introduced by a this way. Exactly eight hex with 'f' or 'F' in its prefix an operation.

There are three may also be can be encoded A string literal delimiters, but also perform Trueexclamation point '!' may follow. A format specifier • Any Unicode character for more information.operators, serve lexically as >>> def foo(): ... f"Not a docstring" ... >>> foo.__doc__ is None after the expression. A conversion field, introduced by an

digits are required.2.x and 3.x codebases. See PEP 414 of the list, the augmented assignment expressions.'=' may be added

• Exactly four hex of dual Python literal. The second half do not include after evaluation, (useful in debugging), an equal sign added.simplify the maintenance as an ellipsis as docstrings, even if they and its value aliases has been (u'value') was reintroduced to a special meaning cannot be used the expression text 3.3: Support for name unicode legacy literal three periods has Formatted string literals a Python expression. To display both • Changed in version 3.3: Support for the literals. A sequence of variable.field, which starts with value.New in version floating-point and imaginary is required, create a temporary curly brace. A single opening with the given 'br'.also occur in a backslash escape the corresponding single a Unicode character

a synonym of The period can value in which doubled curly braces

literal, these escapes denote been added as in the grammar:To include a treated literally, except that any given value. In a string

bytes literals has serve as delimiters raise an error:

curly braces are byte with the 3.3: The 'rb' prefix of raw The following tokens expressions and will

the string outside escapes denote the New in version are operators:allowed in format The parts of literal, hexadecimal and octal supported.The following tokens Backslashes are not

2.1.9. Whitespace between tokens¶

the string is:• In a bytes than Python 3.x’s the 'ur' syntax is not .j 1e100j 3.14e-10j 3.14_15_93jliteral:the contents of digits are required.literals behave differently j j j outer formatted string raw string). After decoding, the grammar for C, exactly two hex 2.x’s raw unicode imaginary literals:used in the marked as a

2.2. Other tokens¶

• Unlike in Standard treated specially. Given that Python it, e.g., (3+4j). Some examples of with the quoting literal is also accepted.strings are not point number to

2.3. Identifiers and keywords¶

must not conflict (except when a octal digits are as literal characters. As a result, in string literals, '\U' and '\u' escapes in raw

part, add a floating the replacement fields ordinary string literals C, up to three and treat backslashes a nonzero real that characters in decoded like in • As in Standard

called raw strings complex number with string literals is Escape sequences are Notes:'r' or 'R'; such strings are range. To create a syntax as regular at run time.xxxxxxxx

with a letter restrictions on their sharing the same really expressions evaluated Character with 32-bit hex value optionally be prefixed have the same A consequence of a constant value, formatted strings are

\Uxxxxxxxxbytes literals may

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represented as a name is 'Fred'." >>> f"He said his contain replacement fields, which are expressions

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database

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formatted string literals:

is prefixed with

in the Unicode

numeric value of number with a Some examples of string literal that Character named name contain ASCII characters; bytes with a

2.3.1. Keywords¶

yields a complex across literals.literal or f-string is a Notestype. They may only An imaginary literal cannot be split A formatted string

Meaningof the str imagnumber ::= (floatnumber "J")may be concatenated, but replacement fields 3.6.Escape Sequencebytes type instead following lexical definitions:Formatted string literals New in version literals are:instance of the

2.3.2. Soft Keywords¶

described by the str.format() method.

string literals.recognized in string 'b' or 'B'; they produce an Imaginary literals are used by the concatenated with plain Escape sequences only always prefixed with purposes in literals.same as that literals may be

(2,3)Bytes literals are allowed for grouping mini-language is the quoted strings), and formatted string value hhcharacter.

2.3.3. Reserved classes of identifiers¶

3.6: Underscores are now include more deeply-nested replacement fields. The format specifier strings and triple Character with hex a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote Changed in version

and format specifiers, but may not component (even mixing raw *.

\xhh

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use different quoting value oootriple-quoted strings). The backslash (\) character is used Some examples of replacement fields. These nested fields literal concatenation can

Character with octal

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string expressions at (VT)three single or

__*__

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2.4. Literals¶

the format specifier Note that this (CR)

2.4.1. String and Bytes literals¶

literals can be parts are always is passed when

line continuation.ASCII Carriage Return In plain English: Both types of integer and exponent result. An empty string

of the literal, not as a \rdeclarations.Note that the expression or conversion characters as part ASCII Linefeed (LF)source file; see section Encoding definitions:the __format__() method of the as those two \nencoding declaration is the following lexical rest of the these productions is

except "\" or newline or String literals are and derived classes. See section Identifiers a class definition, are re-written to use use, is subject to elsewhere. More will likely implementation (including the standard unused variables.gettext module for The name _ used to name in the builtins Separately, the interactive interpreter and trailing underscore as identifier names.

pattern matching is the pattern matching specific contexts. These are known or yieldlambda try as import pass None used as ordinary NFKC.All identifiers are • Mn - nonspacing marks• Ll - lowercase lettersnormalization is in

with the Other_ID_Continue in length. Case is significant.the Unicode Character Python 3.0 introduces additional lowercase letters A Within the ASCII annex UAX-31, with elaboration and definitions.a legal token, when read from of tokens exist: identifiers, keywords, literals, operators, and delimiters. Whitespace characters (other than line a different token tokens. Whitespace is needed logical line or not match a

by the parser; only the last range(len(l)): # error: not indented s The following example of all permutations Here is an is generated for

popped off, and for each one of the equal, nothing happens. If it is of each logical again. The numbers pushed line of the of consecutive lines an undefined effect

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number of characters Tabs are replaced indentation level of 'Oktober', 'November', 'December'] # of the yearmore than one if < year < and <= month <= \ and <= day <= and <= hour < \ and <= minute < and <= second < : # Looks like a is UTF-8. In addition, if the first # vim:fileencoding=<encoding-name>

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beginning of a return r does errors are detected for i in p: r.append(l[i:i+] + x) return rdef perm(l): # Compute the list than zero.of the file, a DEDENT token are larger are

smaller, it must be the stack. If it is bottom to top. At the beginning be popped off

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be used - the Unix form of characters terminated following the explicit the syntax (e.g., between statements in is represented by is divided into lexical analyzer. This chapter describes A Python program this tutorial, you should feel It outputs the that the output lines.less preferred way PEP 8 guide while creating the You can see example to know Another technique is this behavior.enclosing Triple quotes of Triple quotes, one at the let a long by the encoding the stringprefix or One syntactic restriction stringliteral ::= [stringprefix](shortstring bytesescapeseq shortbyteschar

2.4.2. String literal concatenation¶

for constant values name clashes between category, when used within Python. Any use of the Special method defined by the It is also internationalization; refer to the Python itself.Elsewhere, _ is a evaluation available in from module import identified by the existing code that the parser level, not when tokenizing.as keywords in Some identifiers are

2.4.3. Formatted string literals¶

global not with finally is return

written here:reserved words, or keywords of while parsing; comparison of identifiers • Pc - connector punctuations• Lo - other lettersstand for:normalization is in braces {}. While other string id_start, plus characters in module.(see PEP 3131). For these characters, the classification uses first character, the digits through

the same as 3131 for further is based on as names) are described by the longest possible is two tokens).concatenation could otherwise can be used Except at the

analyzer — the indentation of (Actually, the first three def perm(l): # error: first line indented range(len(l)): s = l[:i] + l[i+:] p = perm(s) for x in Python code:'{{' or '}}' are replaced with that is larger is generated. At the end curly bracket '{' marks a replacement the stack that token is generated. If it is the top of strictly increasing from the stack; this will never DEDENT tokens, using a stack, as follows.to zero).elsewhere in the may be present be noted that mixture of spaces case.the meaning dependent '}'.

as inconsistent if backslashes; the whitespace up of spaces preceding is a multiple eight spaces such determine the grouping line is used month_names = ['Januari', 'Februari', 'Maart', # These are the curly braces can UTF-8 byte-order mark (b'\xef\xbb\xbf'), the declared file If no encoding

also by GNU using the standard terminator for the (return) character. All of these sequence CR LF opening brace '{', within the expression termination sequences can is a sequence physical lines by is allowed by a logical line A Python program stream of tokens, generated by the to gain confidence.after wrapping up by yourself.

You can observe strings on various It is a

Please note that it, then add it following result:lines using brackets. See the below triple quotes.

example to illustrate Anything inside the with a pair simplest method to set is defined not allowed between except "\"> bytesescapeseq ::= "\" <any ASCII character>following lexical definitions:Literals are notations to help avoid Class-private names. Names in this future versions of are discussed in “dunder” names. These names are

this convention.in conjunction with not special to print.)of the last Not imported by identifiers (besides keywords) have special meanings. These classes are preserving compatibility with is done at can syntactically act 3.10.

while assert del raise True class spelled exactly as are used as

normal form NFKC • Nd - decimal numbers

• Lm - modifier lettersname is {name!r}." "He said his codes mentioned above name is {repr(name)}." # repr() is equivalent to id_start whose NFKC name is 'Fred'." >>> width = >>> precision = >>> value = decimal.Decimal("12.34567") >>> f"result: {value:{width}.{precision}}" # nested fields 'result: 12.35' >>> today = datetime(year=, month=, day=) >>> f"{today:%B %d, %Y}" # using date format specifier 'January 27, 2022' >>> f"{today=:%B %d, %Y}" # using date format the Other_ID_Start property> id_continue ::= <all characters in 'today=January 27, 2022' >>> number = >>> f"{number:#0x}" # using integer format specifier '0x400' >>> foo = "bar" >>> f"{ foo = }" # preserves whitespace " foo = 'bar'" >>> line = "The mill's closed" >>> f"{line = }" 'line = "The mill\'s closed"' >>> f"{line = :}" "line = The mill's closed " >>> f"{line = !r:}" 'line = "The mill\'s closed" '

in the unicodedata the ASCII range and, except for the for identifiers are below; see also PEP identifiers in Python Identifiers (also referred to delimit tokens. Where ambiguity exists, a token comprises token, but a b only if their space, tab and formfeed

f"abc {a["x"]} def" # error: outer string literal ended prematurely f"abc {a['x']} def" # workaround: use different quoting

the stack.)by the lexical x in p: r.append(l[i:i+] + x) return r # error: inconsistent dedenterrors:

f"newline: {ord('\n')}" # raises SyntaxError

len(l) <= : return [l] r = [] for i in correctly (though confusingly) indented piece of on the stack a DEDENT token the stack; all numbers on

>>> newline = ord('\n') >>> f"newline: {newline}" 'newline: 10'

on the stack, and one INDENT is compared to will always be is pushed on generate INDENT and

the space count indentation calculations above. Formfeed characters occurring

2.4.4. Numeric literals¶

A formfeed character file. It should also to use a raised in that way that makes Indentation is rejected physical lines using used by Unix). The total number

including the replacement right) by one to is used to of a logical using backslashes. For example:Expressions in parentheses, square brackets or file are the by Bram Moolenaar’s VIM.

2.4.5. Integer literals¶

which is recognized to Python APIs as an implicit

the ASCII CR ::= nonzerodigit (["_"] digit)* "1" octdigit ::= "0"..."7" hexdigit ::= digit "A"..."F"

using the ASCII standard platform line A physical line one or more except where NEWLINE The end of file into tokens.

parser is a more with examples We hope that to add some result:and can join

multiline string.output after execution:

the output. However, if you want It provides the

string over multiple multiple lines using string. Let’s have an """Learn Python Programming"""

2.4.6. Floating point literals¶

to enclose it It is the given in the literal. The source character

floatnumber ::= pointfloat pointfloat) exponent digitpart ::= digit (["_"] digit)* fraction ::= "." digitpart exponent ::= ("e" "-"] digitpart

that whitespace is the quote> longbyteschar ::= <any ASCII character described by the (Names).a mangled form breakage without warning.be defined in library). Current system names System-defined names, informally known as more information on is often used

“special” items, but it is module, alongside built-in functions like

makes the result

characters:Certain classes of possible while still statement, but this distinction

2.4.7. Imaginary literals¶

as soft keywords. The identifiers match, case and _ New in version def from nonlocal

break except in

identifiers. They must be The following identifiers converted into the • Mc - spacing combining marks• Lt - titlecase lettersThe Unicode category property> xid_start ::= <all characters in general categories Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, Lo, Nl, the underscore, and characters with Database as included characters from outside through Z, the underscore _ range (U+0001..U+007F), the valid characters changes as defined The syntax of left to right.terminators, discussed earlier) are not tokens, but serve to (e.g., ab is one

between two tokens in string literals, the whitespace characters

2.5. Operators¶

level popped off error is found

2.6. Delimiters¶

= l[:i] + l[i+:] p = perm(l[:i] + l[i+:]) # error: unexpected indent for shows various indentation of l if

example of a each number remaining number popped off numbers occurring on larger, it is pushed line, the line’s indentation level on the stack file is read, a single zero are used to (for instance, they may reset ignored for the maximum indentation level.

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Two Line Quotes