PYTHON APPLICATION

PROGRAMMING (PAP)
Sub Code : 15CS664
IA Marks : 20
Hours per Week : 3 Hours
Exam Marks : 80
Lecture Hours : 40
Exam Hours : 3 Hours
Credit : 3
Assignment : 3
Quiz : 3
Seminar :01

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 SYLLABUS

Module – 1 : Why should you learn to write programs, Variables, expressions and
statements, Conditional execution, Functions –8 Hours
Module – 2 : Iteration, Strings, Files –8 Hours
Module – 3 : Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples, Regular Expressions–8 Hours
Module – 4 : Classes and objects, Classes and functions, Classes and methods–8 Hours
Module – 5 : Networked programs, Using Web Services, Using databases and SQL–8 Hours

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 Python Introduction

• Python is a general-purpose interpreted,

interactive, object-oriented, and high-level
programming language.
• It was created by Guido van Rossum during
1985- 1990. Python is named after a TV Show
called ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ and not
after Python-the snake.

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 Features of Python
• Simple
• Easy to Learn
• Free and Open Source
• High-level Language
• Python is a Beginner's Language
• Portable
• Interactive
• Interpreted
• Object Oriented
• Extensible
• Embeddable
• Extensive Libraries
• Databases
• GUI Programming
• Scalable
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 Programming Editors

• Python 3.6 Command Prompt

• Python 3.6 IDLE
• Anaconda Prompt
• Anaconda Jupyter Notebook
• Anaconda Spider

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 Some Python Packages/Libraries
• Numpy • Tornado • Ansible
• Scipy • Web2py • Salt
• Pandas • Json • OpenStack
• Matplotlib • tKinter • Keras
• Seaborn • OpenCV • Tensor Flow
• Bokeh • PyGObject • Theano
• Scikit Learn • PyQt • nltk
• Pygames • wxPython • Spacy
• dJango • Kivy • TextBlog
• Flask • Buildozer • ScikitLearn
• Bottle • Buildbot • Pattern
• Pyramid • Trac • SQLalchemy
• PyBrain • Roundup • pyMySql
• PyMongo •
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 Different Modes

1. Interactive / Immediate mode (Command Prompt)

2. Script mode (Idle)
3. IDE mode (Jupyter , Spyder and Pycharm)

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 Module 1

M1.1 Why should you learn to write

programs,
M1.2 Variables, expressions and
statements,
M1.3 Conditional execution,
M1.4 Functions

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Why should you learn to Write
programs

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Creativity and Motivation

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 Question

With a neat diagram explain the High level

definition of the parts of Hardware
Architecture. Explain the role of Programmer.

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Computer hardware architecture

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 Different Parts of Hardware architecture and
their High Level Definitions:
• The Central Processing Unit (or CPU) is the part of the computer that is built to be
obsessed with “what is next?” If your computer is rated at 3.0 Gigahertz, it means that
the CPU will ask “What next?” three billion times per second. You are going to have to
learn how to talk fast to keep up with the CPU.
• The Main Memory is used to store information that the CPU needs in a hurry. The main
memory is nearly as fast as the CPU. But the information stored in the main memory
vanishes when the computer is turned off.
• The Secondary Memory is also used to store information, but it is much slower than the
main memory. The advantage of the secondary memory is that it can store information
even when there is no power to the computer. Examples of secondary memory are disk
drives or flash memory (typically found in USB sticks and portable music players).
• The Input and Output Devices are simply our screen, keyboard, mouse, microphone,
speaker, touchpad, etc. They are all of the ways we interact with the computer.
• These days, most computers also have a Network Connection to retrieve information
over a network. We can think of the network as a very slow place to store and retrieve
data that might not always be “up”. So in a sense, the network is a slower and at times
unreliable form of Secondary Memory.
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Job of Programmer

• To use and orchestrate each of these

resources to solve the problem that
you need to solve and analyze the
data you get from the solution.
• “Talking” to the CPU and telling it
what to do next. Sometimes
programmer will tell the CPU to use
the main memory, secondary
memory, network, or the
input/output devices.

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 What is Program ?

• A set of stored instructions that specifies a

computation.

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 What is Programming ?

• The act of writing these instructions down and

getting the instructions to be correct
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 Who is Programmer?

• A person who is skilled in the art of programming

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 Two skills to be a programmer
• First, you need to know the programming language (Python)
- you need to know the vocabulary and the grammar. You
need to be able to spell the words in this new language
properly and know how to construct well-formed “sentences”
in this new language.
• Second, you need to “tell a story”. In writing a story, you
combine words and sentences to convey an idea to the reader.
There is a skill and art in constructing the story, and skill in
story writing is improved by doing some writing and getting
some feedback. In programming, our program is the “story”
and the problem you are trying to solve is the “idea”.

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 Words
•Word is a fundamental unit of python programming language . Word may be reserved or
unreserved words. The Python vocabulary is called the “reserved words”. These are words
that have very special meaning to Python.
•Variables are the words made by the programmer as per need based.

Keywords
False class finally is return
None continue for lambda try

True def from nonlocal while

and del global not with
as elif if or yield
assert else import pass
break except in raise

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 Sentence

• A sentence is a set of words , expressions and

symbols which is syntactically correct .
• Example : print('Hello world!')

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 Conversing with Python

>>> print(‘ My Name is Mr.XYZ')

>>> print(‘Student at SDMIT')
>>> print ‘UJIRE
>>> good-bye

One can converse with python only through

the syntactically correct statements .

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 What is High Level Language ?

• A programming language like Python that is

designed to be easy for humans to read and
write.
• Examples : Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, Basic, Perl,
JavaScript, and many more
• The actual hardware inside the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
does not understand any of these high-level languages.

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 What is Machine Language ?

• The lowest-level language for software, which is

the language that is directly executed by the
central processing unit (CPU).
• Machine language is very simple and frankly very
tiresome to write because it is represented all in
zeros and ones:
• 001010001110100100101010000001111
11100110000011101010010101101101 ...

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 Portability

• A property of a program that can run on more

than one kind of computer.
• Since machine language is tied to the computer hardware, machine language is
not portable across different types of hardware. Programs written in high-level
languages can be moved between different computers by using a different
interpreter on the new machine or recompiling the code to create a machine
language version of the program for the new machine.

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 Programming language translators

These programming language translators fall

into two general categories:
(1) Interpreters and
(2) Compilers.

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 1. Interpreter
• An interpreter reads the source code of the program as written by the
programmer, parses the source code, and interprets the instructions on the fly.
• Python is an interpreter and when we are running Python interactively, we can
type a line of Python (a sentence) and Python processes it immediately and is
ready for us to type another line of Python.
Example :
>>> x = 6
>>> print(x)
6
>>> y = x * 7
>>> print(y)
42
>>>

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 2.Compiler
• It translates a program written in a high-level language into a low-
level language all at once, in preparation for later execution.
• A compiler needs to be handed the entire program in a file, and
then it runs a process to translate the high-level source code into
machine language and then the compiler puts the resulting
machine language into a file for later execution.
• In Windows, the executable machine code for Python itself is
likely in a file with a name like:
• C:\Python35\python.exe

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 Exercise

• Create a file called samp.txt in jupyter and

enter only plain text without containing any
special character. Save the file.

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 Execute the following program
name = input('Enter file:')
handle = open(name,'r')
counts = dict()
for line in handle:
words = line.split()
for word in words:
counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
bigcount = None
bigword = None
for word, count in list(counts.items()):
if bigcount is None or count > bigcount:
bigword = word
bigcount = count
print(bigword, bigcount)

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 What are the building blocks of
programs?
1. INPUT : Get data from the “outside world”. This might be reading data from a file,
or even some kind of sensor like a microphone or GPS. In our initial programs, our
input will come from the user typing data on the keyboard.
2. OUTPUT : Display the results of the program on a screen or store them in a file or
perhaps write them to a device like a speaker to play music or speak text.
3. SEQUENTIAL EXECUTION : Perform statements one after another in the order they
are encountered in the script.
4. CONDITIONAL EXECUTION : Check for certain conditions and then execute or skip
a sequence of statements.
5. REPEATED EXECUTION : Perform some set of statements repeatedly, usually with
some variation.
6. REUSE : Write a set of instructions once and give them a name and then reuse
those instructions as needed throughout your program.

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 Three general types of errors:
1. Syntax errors : These are the first errors you will make and the easiest to
fix. A syntax error means that you have violated the “grammar” rules of
Python.
2. Logic errors: A logic error is when your program has good syntax but
there is a mistake in the order of the statements or perhaps a mistake in
how the statements relate to one another.
3. Semantic errors: A semantic error is when your description of the steps
to take is syntactically perfect and in the right order, but there is simply a
mistake in the program. The program is perfectly correct but it does not
do what you intended for it to do.

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M1.2 Variables, Expressions and
Statements

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 What are Values and types?

1. Value : A value is a letter or a number.

Example : 1, 2, and “Hello, World!”
2. Type : Types are the data types to which the
Values belong :
Example : 2 is an integer, “Hello, World!” is a
string and 3.3 is a float
type(arg) function returns the data type of
the argument
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 Examples
>>> type('Hello, World!')
<class 'str'>
>>> type(17)
<class 'int'>
>>> type(3.2)
<class 'float'>
>>> type('17')
<class 'str'>
>>> type('3.2')
<class 'str'>
>>> print(1,000,000)
100
>>> print(4)
4

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 What are the different Data Types?
1. Numbers: Number data types store numeric values. Number objects
are created when you assign a value to them.
2. Strings: Strings in Python are identified as a contiguous set of
characters represented in the quotation marks. Python allows either
pair of single or double quotes.
3. Lists: Lists are the most versatile of Python's compound data types. A
list contains items separated by commas and enclosed within square
brackets ([ ]).
4. Tuples: A tuple is another sequence data type that is similar to the
list. A tuple consists of a number of values separated by commas.
Unlike lists, however, tuples are enclosed within parenthesis.
5. Dictionary: Python's dictionaries are kind of hash-table type. They
work like associative arrays or hashes found in Perl and consist of key-
value pairs. A dictionary key can be almost any Python type, but are
usually numbers or strings. Values, on the other hand, can be any
arbitrary Python object. Dictionaries are enclosed within curly braces.

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 Numbers

• Python recognizes several different types of

data numbers.
– 23 and −75 are integers,
– 5.0 and −23.09 are floats or floating point
numbers.
– 2 + 3j is a complex number

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 To check the number type
• type(-75)
• type(5.0)
• type(12345678901)
• type(-1+2j)
• complex(2,3)
• type("This is a string")
• type( [1,3,4,1,6] )
• type(True)
• type(False)

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What are Variables ?

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 Variables
• A variable is a name that refers to a value.
Example : x, si , area_of _Circle ,etc

• An assignment statement creates new variables and gives them values

Example :
Message = ‘Python Programming ‘
p =1000
t= 2
r=3.142
Si = p*t*r/100
pi = 3.1415926535897931
area_of _circle = pi*r*r

• To know the type of the variable one can use type() function . Ex: type(p)

• To display the value of a variable , you can use a print statement :

Ex:
– print (Si)
– print(pi)
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 Rules for writing Variable names

1. Variable names can be a combination of letters

in lowercase (a to z) or uppercase (A to Z) or
digits (0 to 9) or an underscore (_).
2. Variable names cannot start with a digit.
3. Keywords cannot be used as Variable names .
4. We cannot use special symbols like !, @, #, $,
% etc. in Variable names .
5. Variable names can be of any length.
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 Illegal Variable names

• >>> 76trombones = 'big parade'

– Syntax Error: invalid syntax

• >>> more@ = 1000000

– Syntax Error: invalid syntax

• >>> class = 'Advanced Theoretical Zymurgy'

– Syntax Error: invalid syntax

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 Statements
• A statement is a unit of code that the Python
interpreter can execute. Each statement is a set
of words ( reserved/unreserved and special
symbols ).
• Types of statements :
– Expression statement Ex: a + 2
– Assignment statement Ex: a = 1
• Print statement , if statement, for statement,
while statement etc
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Multi-Line Statement
In Python, end of a statement is marked by a newline character. But we can make a
statement extend over multiple lines with the line continuation character (\). For
example:
a=1+2+3+\
4+5+6+\
7+8+9
This is explicit line continuation. In Python, line continuation is implied inside parentheses ( ),
brackets [ ] and braces { }. For instance, we can implement the above multi-line statement as
a = (1 + 2 + 3 +
4+5+6+
7 + 8 + 9)
Here, the surrounding parentheses ( ) do the line continuation implicitly. Same is the case
with [ ] and { }. For example:
colors = ['red',
'blue',
'green']

We could also put multiple statements in a single line using semicolons, as follows

a = 1; b = 2; c = 3
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 Operators and operands
• Operators are special symbols that represent computations
like addition and multiplication. The values the operator is
applied to are called operands.

• The operators +, -, *, /, and ** perform addition,

subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation, as
in the following examples:
– 20 + 32
– hour - 1
– hour*60 + minute
– minute/60
– 5**2
– (5+9)*(15-7)

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 Expressions

• An expression is a combination of values,

variables, and operators.

• Example :
17 , x , x + 17 , 1 + 1 , x**2, x**2 + y **2

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 Order of operations

• When more than one operator appears in an expression,

the order of evaluation depends on the rules of
precedence.
PEMDAS order of operation is followed in Python :
• Parentheses have the highest precedence and can be used
to force an expression to evaluate in the order you want.
• Exponentiation has the next highest precedence,
• Multiplication and Division have the same precedence,
which is higher than
• Addition and Subtraction, which also have the same
precedence.
• Operators with the same precedence are evaluated from
left to right.
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 Quotient and Modulus operator

• // is Quotient operator .
Example : 7 // 3 yields 2

• % is a modulus operator and works on

integers which yields the remainder when the
first operand is divided by the second.

Example : r = 7 % 3 yields 1
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 String operations with +

• The + operator perform concatenation with

strings,
• For example:
first = '100'
second = '150'
print(first + second)
The output of this program is 100150.

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 Comments
• Adding notes to the programs to explain in natural
language about what the program is doing are called
comments, and in Python they start with the # symbol:
• Example 1:
# compute the percentage of the hour
percentage = (minute * 100) / 60
• Example 2:
percentage = (minute * 100) / 60 # percentage of an hour
• Example 3: (This comment is redundant with the code and useless:)
v=5 # assign 5 to v
• Example 4: (This comment contains useful information )
• v=5 # velocity in meters/second.

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 Asking the user for input
In order to get the input from the user
through the keyboard Python provides a built-
in function called input. When this function is
called, the program stops and waits for the
user to type something. When the user
presses Return or Enter, the program resumes
and input returns what the user typed as a
string.

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 Example

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 Python Program to Add Two
Numbers
• # This program adds two numbers
• num1 = 1.5
• num2 = 6.3
• # Add two numbers
• sum = float(num1) + float(num2)
• # Display the sum
• print('The sum of {0} and {1} is {2}'.format(num1, num2, sum))

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 Add Two Numbers Provided by
The User
• # Store input numbers
• num1 = input('Enter first number: ')
• num2 = input('Enter second number: ')
• # Add two numbers
• sum = float(num1) + float(num2)
• # Display the sum
• print('The sum of {0} and {1} is {2}'.format(num1, num2, sum))

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 Exercise
• Assume that we execute the following assignment
statements:
width = 17 height = 12.0
For each of the following expressions, write the value of the expression and the type
(of the value of the expression).
1. width//2
2. width/2.0
3. height/3
4. 1 + 2 * 5

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 Exercise
1. Write a program that uses input to prompt a user for their name and
then welcomes them.
2. Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate per hour to
compute gross pay.
3. Write a program to read the following input from user and display
Name :
USN :
Roll NO:
Mobile No:
E-Mail id :
Percentage of Marks :

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 Choosing mnemonic/ meaningful variable
a = 35.0
names
b = 12.50
c=a*b
print(c)

hours = 35.0
rate = 12.50
pay = hours * rate
print(pay)

x1q3z9ahd = 35.0
x1q3z9afd = 12.50
x1q3p9afd = x1q3z9ahd * x1q3z9afd
print(x1q3p9afd)

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 Examples

for word in words:

print(word)

for slice in pizza:

print(slice)

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M1.3 Conditional Execution

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 Explain the following with
examples
• Boolean Expression
• Logical Operators
• Conditional Execution : if
• Alternative Execution: if else
• Chained Conditionals : if elif else
• Nested Conditionals : if else if else
• Catching exception using try and except
• Short circuit evaluation of logical circuits
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 Boolean Expression
• A boolean expression is an expression that is
either true or false.
• Example :
>>> 5 == 5
True
>>> 5 == 6
False

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 The == operator is one of the comparison operators;
the others are:

• x != y # x is not equal to y
• x > y # x is greater than y
• x < y # x is less than y
• x >= y # x is greater than or equal to y
• x <= y # x is less than or equal to y
• x is y # x is the same as y
• x is not y # x is not the same as y

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 Special operators

• Python language offers some special type of

operators like the identity operator or the
membership operator.
• They are described below with examples

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 Identity operators
• is and is not are the identity operators in Python.
• They are used to check if two values (or variables) are located on
the same part of the memory.
• Two variables that are equal does not imply that they are identical.

Operator Meaning Example

True if the operands are identical
is x is True
(refer to the same object)
True if the operands are not
is not identical (do not refer to the x is not True
same object)

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 Example #4: Identity operators
in Python
• x1 = 5
• y1 = 5
• x2 = 'Hello‘
• y2 = 'Hello‘
• x3 = [1,2,3]
• y3 = [1,2,3]
• print(x1 is not y1) # Output: False
• print(x2 is y2) # Output: True
• print(x3 is y3) # Output: False
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 Membership operators
• in and not in are the membership operators in Python.
• They are used to test whether a value or variable is found
in a sequence (string, list, tuple, set and dictionary).
• In a dictionary we can only test for presence of key, not the
value.
Operator Meaning Example
True if value/variable is found in the
in 5 in x
sequence
True if value/variable is not found
not in 5 not in x
in the sequence

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 Example #5: Membership
operators in Python
• x = 'Hello world‘
• y = {1:'a',2:'b'}
• print('H' in x) # Output: True
• print('hello' not in x) # Output: True
• print(1 in y) # Output: True
• print('a' in y) # Output: False

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 Logical operators

Operator Meaning Example

and True if both the operands are true x and y
or True if either of the operands is true x or y
True if operand is false (complements
not not x
the operand)

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 Example #3: Logical Operators
in Python
• x = True
• y = False
• print('x and y is', x and y) # Output: x and y is False
• print('x or y is', x or y) # Output: x or y is True
• print('not x is', not x) # Output: not x is False

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 Summary 2
• Why one Should write Program?
• Program , Programming , Hardware Architecture of Computer, Interpreter and
Compiler.
• Building Blocks of Program
• Types of Errors
• Variables , Expressions and Statements , order of operations
• Reading input from the user through keyboard
• Special Operators ( identity (is , is not) and membership (in , not in) operators)
• Boolean Expressions , Logical Operators
• Conditional Executions (Conditional Execution : if , Alternative Execution: if
else Chained Conditionals : if elif else , Nested Conditionals : if else if else
Catching exception using try and except and Short circuit evaluation of logical
circuits )

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 Conditional execution
• The simplest form is the
conditional if statement:
if x > 0 :
print('x is positive')
• The boolean expression after
the if statement is called the
condition. We end the
• if statement with a colon
character (:) and the line(s)
after the if statement are
indented.

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 Alternative execution
• A second form of the if
statement is alternative
execution, in which there
are two possibilities and
the condition determines
which one gets executed.
The syntax looks like this:

if x%2 == 0 :
print('x is even')
else :
print('x is odd')

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 Exercise
1. Write a program to prompt the user for hours
and rate per hour to compute gross pay. Also to
give the employee 1.5 times the hourly rate for
hours worked above 40 hours.

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 Chained conditionals
Sometimes there are more than two
possibilities and we need more than two
branches. One way to express a computation
like that is a chained conditional:
if x < y:
print('x is less than y')
elif x > y:
print('x is greater than y')
else:
print('x and y are equal')
Note : elif is an abbreviation of “else if.” Again, exactly
one branch will be executed.

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 Note

• There is no limit on the number of elif

statements.
• If there is an else clause, it has to be at the
end, but there doesn’t have to be one.

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 Example
if choice == 'a':
print('Bad guess')
elif choice == 'b':
print('Good guess')
elif choice == 'c':
print('Close, but not correct')

• Each condition is checked in order. If the first is false, the next

is checked, and so on. If one of them is true, the
corresponding branch executes, and the statement ends.
• Even if more than one condition is true, only the first true
branch executes

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 Exercise

Write a program to prompt for a score between

0.0 and 1.0. If the score is out of range, print an
error message.
[Score Grade >= 0.9 A >= 0.8 B >= 0.7 C >= 0.6 D
< 0.6 F ]

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 Nested conditionals
• One condition can also be
nested within another. We
could have written the
three-branch example like
this:
if x == y:
print('x and y are equal')
else:
if x < y:
print('x is less than y')
else:
print('x is greater than y')

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 Note
• Logical operators often provide a way to simplify nested conditional
statements. For example, we can rewrite the following code using a
single conditional:
if 0 < x:
if x < 10:
print('x is a positive single-digit number.')

• The print statement is executed only if we make it past both

conditionals, so we can get the same effect with the and operator:

if 0 < x and x < 10:

print('x is a positive single-digit number.')

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 Catching exceptions using try
and except
• There is a conditional execution structure built
into Python to handle these types of expected
and unexpected errors called “try / except”.
• The idea of try and except is that you know
that some sequence of instruction(s) may
have a problem and you want to add some
statements to be executed if an error occurs.
• These extra statements (the except block) are
ignored if there is no error.

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 Example

inp = input('Enter Fahrenheit Temperature:')

try:
fahr = float(inp)
cel = (fahr - 32.0) * 5.0 / 9.0
print(cel)
except:
print('Please enter a number')

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 Short-circuit evaluation of
logical expressions
• x=6
• y=0
• x >= 2 and y != 0 and (x/y) > 2

• x=6
• y=0
• x >= 2 and (x/y) > 2 and y != 0

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 Exercise
1. Write a program to prompt the user for hours
and rate per hour to compute gross pay. Also to
give the employee 1.5 times the hourly rate for
hours worked above 40 hours.
2. Rewrite the above program using try and except
so that your program handles non-numeric
input gracefully by printing a message and
exiting the program.

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M1.4 Functions

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 Explain the following with example

1. Functions
2. Function Call
3. Built in Function
4. Type Conversion Functions
5. Random Numbers
6. Math Functions
7. Adding new Functions
8. Defining and using the new functions
9. Flow of execution
10. Parameter and Arguments
11. Fruitful and void Functions
12. Advantages of Functions

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 Functions
• In the context of programming, a function is a named sequence of
statements that performs a computation to do particular task.
• Syntax for Defining a function :

def fun_name(parameter list):

stmt1
stmt2
stmt3
-------
stmtn
return stmt

• Syntax for calling a function :

fun_name(parameter list)

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 Parameters and arguments
• Parameters are temporary variable names within functions. The argument can be
thought of as the value that is assigned to that temporary variable.

• Function Definition :
def cube(number):
return number**3

• 'number' here is the parameter for the function 'cube'. This means that anywhere we
see 'number' within the function will act as a placeholder until number is passed an
argument.
• Function Call :
– cube(3)
• Here 3 is the argument. The parameters are used as place holder or arguments.
• Parameters are used in function definition and arguments are used in function call.

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Working of function

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 Example 1:

Output
# Defining a Function Rajashree
def print_Address(): D.NO 07
print(“Rajashree") Ajit Nagara
print(‘ D.NO 07 ') Ujire -574240
print (‘ Ajit Nagara’)
print(‘Ujire -574240’)
# Function Call
print_Address()

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 Example 2 :

def print_lyrics():
print(“First Line of a Song") Output
print(‘Second Line of a Song') First Line of a Song
Second Line of a Song
def repeat_lyrics(): First Line of a Song
print_lyrics() Second Line of a Song
print_lyrics()

repeat_lyrics()

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 Example 3

def print_twice(bruce): Output

print(bruce)
print(bruce) Spam
Spam
print_twice('Spam')
17
print_twice(17) 17
3.141592653589793
import math
print_twice(math.pi) 3.141592653589793
print_twice('Spam '*4) Spam Spam Spam Spam
print_twice(math.cos(math.pi))
Spam Spam Spam Spam
-1.0 -1.0
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 Example

• michael = 'Eric, the half a bee.'

• print_twice(michael)

Output :
Eric, the half a bee.
Eric, the half a bee.

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 Types of Functions based on return

• void Function
• fruitful Function

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 void function does not return a value

def print_name():
print(“RAHUL MODI”);

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 Fruitful functions returns a value

def addtwo(a, b): Output

added = a + b 8
return added

x = addtwo(3, 5)
print(x)

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 Example for Fruitful Functions

• radians =30
• x = math.cos(radians)
• math.sqrt(5)
2.23606797749979
• golden = (math.sqrt(5) + 1) / 2

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 Why functions?
• Function gives you an opportunity to name a group of
statements,
• Which makes your program easier to read, understand,
and debug.
• Functions can make a program smaller by eliminating
repetitive code.
• Dividing a long program into functions allows to debug
the parts one at a time and then assemble them into a
working whole.
• Well-designed functions are often useful for many
programs. Once you write and debug one, you can
reuse it

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 Categories of Functions

1. Built in Functions : Functions that are built

into Python
2. User Defined Functions :Functions defined by
the users themselves.

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 1.Built in Functions
• The Python interpreter has a number of functions that are always
available for use. These functions are called built-in functions. For
example, print() function prints the given object to the standard output
device (screen) or to the text stream file.

• In Python 3.6 (latest version), there are 68 built-in functions .

• Examples :
print(),len(),max(),min(),input(),help(),abs(),flo
at(),int(),hex(),bin(),oct()

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 Built-in functions
• Python provides a number of important built-in functions that we can use
without needing to provide the function definition. The creators of
Python wrote a set of functions to solve common problems and included
them in Python for us to use.

• max('Hello world')
w
• min('Hello world')
‘‘
• len('Hello world')
11

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 2.User Defined Function
• Functions that we define ourselves to do certain specific task are referred
as user-defined functions. Functions that readily come with Python are
called built-in functions. If we use functions written by others in the form
of library, it can be termed as library functions. All the other functions that
we write on our own fall under user-defined functions. So, our user-
defined function could be a library function to someone else.
• Example of a user-defined function
def add_numbers(x,y):
sum = x + y
return sum
num1 = 5
num2 = 6
print("The sum is", add_numbers(num1, num2))

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 Math Functions and constants
Function name Description Constant Description
abs(value) absolute value e 2.7182818...
ceil(value) rounds up pi 3.1415926...
cos(value) cosine, in radians
floor(value) rounds down
log10(value) logarithm, base 10
max(value1, value2) larger of two values
min(value1, value2) smaller of two values
round(value) nearest whole number
sin(value) sine, in radians
sqrt(value) square root

• To use these commands, place this line atop your program:

from math import *

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 Math functions example
• import math
• print(math)
• ratio = signal_power / noise_power
• decibels = 10 * math.log10(ratio)
• radians = 0.7
• height = math.sin(radians)
• radians = degrees / 360.0 * 2 * math.pi
• math.sin(radians)
• math.sqrt(2) / 2.0

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 Type conversion functions: used to convert one form to other

• int('32') #string to int

• int('Hello') # string to int
• int(3.99999) # float to int
• int(-2.3) # float to int
• float(32) # int to float
• float('3.14159') # string to float

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 Random numbers

• The random module provides functions

that generate pseudorandom numbers
• To see a sample, run this loop:
• import random
for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print(x)

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 Output
0.14350103211784326
0.11775378050385343
0.593629658284786
0.8866024608748476
0.6316710639256297
0.871088071436763
0.05665609859315035
0.5586754374930559
0.6952228377929273
0.009905091780000652

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 Other randoms

• random.randint(5, 10)
Output : Any random number between 5 to 10
• t = [1, 2, 3]
random.choice(t)
Output : Any random number between 1 to 3

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 Exercise

• Write the grade program using a function

called compute grade that takes a score as its
parameter and returns a grade as a string.

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 Glossary
• algorithm : A general process for solving a category of problems.
• Argument: A value provided to a function when the function is called. This value is
assigned to the corresponding parameter in the function.
• body :The sequence of statements inside a function definition.
• composition :Using an expression as part of a larger expression, or a statement as part of
a larger statement.
• Deterministic: Pertaining to a program that does the same thing each time it runs, given
the same inputs.
• dot notation: The syntax for calling a function in another module by specifying the
module name followed by a dot (period) and the function name.
• flow of execution :The order in which statements are executed during a program run.
• fruitful function: A function that returns a value.
• function :A named sequence of statements that performs some useful operation.
Functions may or may not take arguments and may or may not produce a result.

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 Glossary
• function call A statement that executes a function. It consists of the function name
followed by an argument list.
• function object A value created by a function definition. The name of the function
is a variable that refers to a function object.
• header The first line of a function definition.
• import statement A statement that reads a module file and creates a module
object.
• module object A value created by an import statement that provides access to the
data and code defined in a module.
• parameter A name used inside a function to refer to the value passed as an
argument.
• pseudorandom Pertaining to a sequence of numbers that appear to be random,
but are generated by a deterministic program.
• return value The result of a function. If a function call is used as an expression, the
return value is the value of the expression.
• void function A function that does not return a value.

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 Exercise 4: What is the purpose of the “def” keyword in
Python?

a) It is slang that means “the following code is

really cool”
b) It indicates the start of a function
c) It indicates that the following indented
section of code is to be stored for later
d) b and c are both true
e) None of the above

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 What will the following
Python program print out?

def fred():
print("Zap")
def jane():
print("ABC")
jane()
fred()
jane()

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End of Modul1

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