How to use the pass statement?

Question

I am in the process of learning Python and I have reached the section about the pass statement. The guide I'm using defines it as being a Null statement that is commonly used as a placeholder.

I still don't fully understand what that means though. Can someone show me a simple/basic situation where the pass statement would be used and why it is needed?

Answer 1

Pass statement is a null statement noting but a place holder for future code. The interpreter in python does not ignore the pass statement but sends the statement to no operation. Pass statement is used to ignore the compilation errors and to hold the place for code which you want to implement later. 

For example, if you want to implement a class with some functions that you want to implement in future but not now.

class myClass(object): 

    def function1(self): pass
    def function2(self): pass

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