Expression Statement - One Expression Only

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∟Expression Statement - One Expression Only

This section provides a quick introduction of expression statement, which is a single expression.

What Is Expression Statement? An expression statement is a simple statement with a single expression. Execution of an expression statement is to evaluate the expression to result a single object.

Expression statements have no statement keyword.

Here are some examples of expression statements:

# an expression statement with a single object
>>> "apple"
'apple'

# an expression statement with a single operation
>>> "pine" + "apple"
'pineapple'

# an expression statement with multiple operations
>>> (9 + 3) * 2 < 10 or (9 + 3) * 2 > 20
True

# an expression statement with a function call
>>> type(3.14)
<class 'float'>

# an expression statement with a tuple object
>>> 9, 1, 1
(9, 1, 1)

# 3 expression statements written in 1 line
>>> 9; 1; 1;
9
1
1