Reserved keywords

Python have few reserved keywords, which cannot be used as variable names and have specific function or meaing. What that means is that one cannot use a reserved keywords as variable name as shown below.



In [6]:

    
is = 10









    



  File "<ipython-input-6-cc34fec5d1d4>", line 1
    is = 10
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

NOTE: Trying to use one will always result in SyntaxError as shown above.

List of reserved keywords is as follows. We will be covering most of them in later sections


and	as	assert	break	class
continue	def	del	elif	else
except	False	finally	for	from
global	if	import	in	is
lambda	None	nonlocal	not	or
pass	raise	return	True	try
while	with	yield