Assignment statement
Variables allow programs to refer to values using names rather than memory locations. Ex: age refers to a person’s age, and birth refers to a person’s date of birth.
A statement can set a variable to a value using the assignment operator (=). Note that this is different from the equal sign of mathematics. Ex: age = 6 or birth = “May 15”. The left side of the assignment statement is a variable, and the right side is the value the variable is assigned.
Variable naming rules
A variable name can consist of letters, digits, and underscores and be of any length. The name cannot start with a digit. Ex: 101class is invalid. Also, letter case matters. Ex: Total is different from total. Python’s style guide recommends writing variable names in snake case, which is all lowercase with underscores in between each word, such as first_name or total_price.
A name should be short and descriptive, so words are preferred over single characters in programs for readability. Ex: A variable named count indicates the variable’s purpose better than a variable named c.
Python has reserved words, known as keywords, which have special functions and cannot be used as names for variables (or other objects).
| False | await | else | import | pass |
| None | break | except | in | raise |
| True | class | finally | is | return |
| and | continue | for | lambda | try |
| as | def | from | nonlocal | while |
| assert | del | global | not | with |
| asynch | elif | if | or | yield |
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