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  2. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    A snippet of Python code with keywords highlighted in bold yellow font. The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some ...

  3. Option type - Wikipedia

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    In programming languages (especially functional programming languages) and type theory, an option type or maybe type is a polymorphic type that represents encapsulation of an optional value; e.g., it is used as the return type of functions which may or may not return a meaningful value when they are applied.

  4. Command-line argument parsing - Wikipedia

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    An example of C argument parsing would be: #include <stdio.h> int main ... Python also has a module called argparse in the standard library for parsing command-line ...

  5. Identifier (computer languages) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming languages, an identifier is a lexical token (also called a symbol, but not to be confused with the symbol primitive data type) that names the language's entities. Some of the kinds of entities an identifier might denote include variables , data types , labels , subroutines , and modules .

  6. Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia

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    Spam, ham, and eggs are the principal metasyntactic variables used in the Python programming language. [10] This is a reference to the famous comedy sketch, "Spam", by Monty Python, the eponym of the language. [11] In the following example spam, ham, and eggs are metasyntactic variables and lines beginning with # are comments.

  7. IDLE - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] It is packaged as an optional part of the Python packaging with many Linux distributions. It is completely written in Python and the Tkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions for Tcl/Tk). IDLE is intended to be a simple IDE and suitable for beginners, especially in an educational environment. To that end, it is cross-platform, and avoids ...

  8. Programming idiom - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a programming idiom, code idiom or simply idiom is a code fragment having a semantic role [1] which recurs frequently across software projects. It often expresses a special feature of a recurring construct in one or more programming languages, frameworks or libraries. This definition is rooted in the linguistic ...

  9. Type aliasing - Wikipedia

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    Computer programming portal; Type aliasing is a feature in some programming languages that allows creating a reference to a type using another name. It does not create a new type hence does not increase type safety. It can be used to shorten a long name.