Introduction to Built-Ins in Python

In this lesson, we're going to cover built-in functions and review the categories for these functions so that you get a sense of what they do. This lesson is part of a series of content designed to help you learn to program with the Python programming language.

Learning Objectives

• When the Python runtime starts up it bootstraps several built-in functions. These functions fall into some basic categories including:
• Object-focused
• Name-binding-focused
• Encoding-focused
• Two built-in functions of note at this stage are:
• The print function, which is used to display text-based output in the console
• The input function, which is used to get text-based input from the console

Intended Audience

This lesson was designed for first-time developers wanting to learn Python. 

Prerequisites 

This is an introductory lesson and doesn’t require any prior programming knowledge.