Keywords
Published Apr 23, 2022
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Certain keywords are reserved in Python and are not available to be assigned as variables or named functions. There are many keywords where some specialize in control-flow (e.g. if/else and for) while others work as operators (e.g. and, in, and is).
Keywords
- assert
- Confirms the truthiness of a given statement.
- class
- Used for defining classes in Python.
- del
- Removes an object from the namespace of a Python shell or environment.
- global
- Creates a global variable that can be updated.
- lambda
- Produces an anonymous function expression.
- return
- Ends a function and sends a value back to the caller.
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