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Identifiers in Python

An Identifier is a user-defined name given to a variable, function, class, module,


etc. The identifier is a combination of character digits and an underscore. They are
case-sensitive i.e., ‘num’ and ‘Num’ and ‘NUM’ are three different identifiers in
python. It is a good programming practice to give meaningful names to identifiers to
make the code understandable.

We can also use the Python string isidentifier() method to check whether a string is
a valid identifier or not.

Rules for Naming Python Identifiers


 It cannot be a reserved python keyword.
 It should not contain white space.
 It can be a combination of A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or underscore.
 It should start with an alphabet character or an underscore ( _ ).
 It should not contain any special character other than an underscore ( _ ).

Examples of Python Identifiers

Valid identifiers:
 var1
 _var1
 _1_var
 var_1

Invalid Identifiers
 !var1
 1var
 1_var
 var#1
 var 1

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