Chapter 2

Question 1

What is an object?

Answer 1

Represents a value, it is automatically created as the code runs
- Unnecessary objects are deleted after use, for example printing the value 4, the value 4 has to be represented but not remembered or stored anywhere, so the object is thrown away from memory after use

Question 2

What is name binding?

Answer 2

Assigning an interpreted object to a variable that is stored
- A name can only store one object

Question 3

What does the .id() function do?

Answer 3

Describes the object passed as a numerical value that represents the memory address of the object

Question 4

What is an identifier?

Answer 4

The name of a variable

Question 5

What are may an illegal identifier include?

Answer 5

• Start with a number
• Special characters that are not ‘_’
• Reserved functions built into python
• Cannot lead with double ‘__’, the interpreter actually changes the variable name if this happens