Short Guide to Best Practices When Naming Variables in Python

Variables in programming are something like containers storing some specific things.

# Syntax:
variable_name = "data"

There are some best practices in python being followed by the python community when it comes to naming your variables.

Dos

• Variable names can contain letters, numbers, underscore
• Always start with lowercase letter or an underscore
• snake_case Use lowercase letters and underscores for spaces.

Don'ts

• Do not use reserved keywords of python as variable names, because this is what python will tell you:

... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./program.py", line (x), in <module> ...

• Do not use special characters like !,@,#,$,%,^,&,* in a variable name, because you will get the same error message:

... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./program.py", line (x), in <module> ...

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