Python Keywords, Concepts, Functions

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Following are terse descriptions for Python3 keywords and commonly used functions. For more information, see w3schools for a bit more explanation and python.org for the language reference.

Python Keywords

• break - exit the current loop
• print - function to write to the screen
• - Text data type
• - Function to convert a string to an integer
• - Function to generate a sequence of numbers
• - Determine whether two objects are the same object(not just value)
• - To load a module
• - Declare a function
• - Loop with only condition
• - Conditional statements (three keywords)
• - Function to get the length of a string
• - Loop with that iterates through a list
• - Keyword to send a value back from a function
• - Boolean operator, True only if both sides are True
• - Boolean operator, True if either side is True
• - Boolean operator, negates
• - Boolean values (two keywords)
• - Remove from a list by position
• - Handle an exception (2 keywords)
• - Test if something is inside of a list/string/tuple/dictionary
• - Special value for a variable that has no value

• boolean - data type for True and False