Python Keywords

Quiz

The Python, keywords are the reserved words with a unique functions. These words cannot be used as a variables, function-names, class names. These are case-sensitive keywords.

Python's built-in methods and classes are not the same as the keywords. Built-in methods and classes are constantly present; however, they are not as limited in their application as keywords. When we assign a value to a keyword, it will raise an SyntaxError.

Python Keywords

Python contains thirty-five keywords in the most recent version, i.e., Python 3.8. Here we have shown a complete list of Python keywords −

Keyword	Description
and	an logical operator
as	To create an alias
assert	For debugging
await	used to signify that the coroutine should pause execution until the awaited task completes
async	used to declare a function as a coroutine
break	used to control the loop
class	used to create a class
continue	To continue to the next iteration of a loop
def	used to define a function
del	to delete an object
elif	Used in conditional statement to check the condition
else	Used in conditional statement
except	Used in exception handling
False	Boolean value, result of comparison operation
finally	a block of code that will be executed no matter if there is an exception or not.
for	Used to create a for loop
from	used to import a function from a module
global	To create a global variable
if	To make conditional statement
import	To import a module
in	To check if an element is present in a iterable or not
is	To check whether both the values are equal or not
lambda	To create a lambda function
None	Represent a null value
nonlocal	To declare a non-local variable
not	A logical operator
or	A logical operator
pass	A null statement, statement that will not perform anything
raise	To raise an exception
return	To exit a function and return a value
True	Boolean value, result of comparison operation
try	to make a try in except statements
while	To create a while loop
with	Used to simplify exception handling
yield	To return a list of values from a generator

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