Programming in Python

Python Types

Explore Python's data types including integers, floats, complex numbers, booleans, strings, and containers like lists and dictionaries. Understand dynamic typing, variable assignment, and how to inspect data types using the type() function for better coding practices.

We'll cover the following...

Basic types
Integer and float ranges
Variable type and assignment

Python supports three categories of data types:

Basic types: int, float, complex, bool, str, bytes
Container types: list, tuple, set, dictionary
User-defined types: class

Basic types

Here are some examples of different basic types:

int: It can be expressed in binary, decimal, octal or hexadecimal. Binary starts with 0b/0B, octal with 0o/0O and hex with 0x/0X, e.g., 0b10111, 156, 0o432, 0x4A3 etc.
float: It can be expressed in a fractional or exponential form, e.g., 314.1528, 3.141528 $^{2}$ ...