A small number of constants live in the built-in namespace. They are:
False
The false value of the bool
type.
New in version 2.3.
True
The true value of the bool
type.
New in version 2.3.
None
The sole value of types.NoneType
. None
is frequently used to represent the absence of a value, as when default arguments are not passed to a function.
Changed in version 2.4: Assignments to None
are illegal and raise a SyntaxError
.
NotImplemented
Special value which can be returned by the “rich comparison” special methods (__eq__()
, __lt__()
, and friends), to indicate that the comparison is not implemented with respect to the other type.
Ellipsis
Special value used in conjunction with extended slicing syntax.
__debug__
This constant is true if Python was not started with an -O
option. See also the assert
statement.
Note
The names None
and __debug__
cannot be reassigned (assignments to them, even as an attribute name, raise SyntaxError
), so they can be considered “true” constants.
Changed in version 2.7: Assignments to __debug__
as an attribute became illegal.
The site
module (which is imported automatically during startup, except if the -S
command-line option is given) adds several constants to the built-in namespace. They are useful for the interactive interpreter shell and should not be used in programs.
quit([code=None])
exit([code=None])
Objects that when printed, print a message like “Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit”, and when called, raise SystemExit
with the specified exit code.
copyright
credits
Objects that when printed or called, print the text of copyright or credits, respectively.
license
Object that when printed, prints the message “Type license() to see the full license text”, and when called, displays the full license text in a pager-like fashion (one screen at a time).
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https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/constants.html