Python Data Types

 DATA TYPES



 Variables can hold values, and every value has a data-type. Python is a dynamically typed language; hence we do not need to define the type of the variable while declaring it. The interpreter implicitly binds the value with its type.

 The variable a holds integer value five and we did not define its type. Python interpreter will automatically interpret variables a as an integer type.

 Python enables us to check the type of the variable used in the program. Python provides us the type() function, which returns the type of the variable passed.

 Consider the following example to define the values of different data types and checking its type.

 a=10  

b="Hi Python"  

c = 10.5  

print(type(a))  

print(type(b))  

print(type(c))

 <type 'int'>

<type 'str'>

<type 'float'>

 Standard data types

 A variable can hold different types of values. For example, a person's name must be stored as a string whereas its id must be stored as an integer.

 Python provides various standard data types that define the storage method on each of them. The data types defined in Python are given below.

 1) Numbers type

2) Sequence type

 3) Boolean

4)Set

5) Dictionary

In this section of the tutorial, we will give a brief introduction of the above data-types. We will discuss each one of them in detail later in this tutorial.

 Python creates Number objects when a number is assigned to a variable. For example;

 a = 5  

print("The type of a", type(a))  

b = 40.5  

print("The type of b", type(b))  

c = 1+3j  

print("The type of c", type(c))  

print(" c is a complex number", isinstance(1+3j,complex))

 The type of a <class 'int'>

The type of b <class 'float'>

The type of c <class 'complex'>

c is complex number: True

Python supports three types of numeric data.

Int - Integer value can be any length such as integers 10, 2, 29, -20, -150 etc. Python has no restriction on the length of an integer. Its value belongs to int

Float - Float is used to store floating-point numbers like 1.9, 9.902, 15.2, etc. It is accurate upto 15 decimal points.

 complex - A complex number contains an ordered pair, i.e., x + iy where x and y denote the real and imaginary parts, respectively. The complex numbers like 2.14j, 2.0 + 2.3j, etc.

 The string can be defined as the sequence of characters represented in the quotation marks. In Python, we can use single, double, or triple quotes to define a string.

String handling in Python is a straightforward task since Python provides built-in functions and operators to perform operations in the string.

 In the case of string handling, the operator + is used to concatenate two strings as the operation "hello"+" python" returns "hello python".

 The operator * is known as a repetition operator as the operation "Python" *2 returns 'Python Python'.

The following example illustrates the string in Python.

str = "string using double quotes"  

  print(str)  

  s = '''''A multiline 

  string'''  

  print(s)

 string using double quotes

A multiline

string

 Python Lists are similar to arrays in C. However, the list can contain data of different types. The items stored in the list are separated with a comma (,) and enclosed within square brackets [].

: We can use slice [:] operators to access the data of the list. The concatenation operator (+) and repetition operator (*) works with the list in the same way as they were working with the strings.

 Consider the following example.

list1  = [1, "hi", "Python", 2]    

#Checking type of given list  

print(type(list1))  


#Printing the list1  

print (list1)  


# List slicing  

print (list1[3:])  


# List slicing  

print (list1[0:2])   


# List Concatenation using + operator  

print (list1 + list1)  


# List repetation using * operator  

print (list1 * 3)

 [1, 'hi', 'Python', 2]

[2]

[1, 'hi']

[1, 'hi', 'Python', 2, 1, 'hi', 'Python', 2]

[1, 'hi', 'Python', 2, 1, 'hi', 'Python', 2, 1, 'hi', 'Python', 2]

A tuple is similar to the list in many ways. Like lists, tuples also contain the collection of the items of different data types. The items of the tuple are separated with a comma (,) and enclosed in parentheses ().

 A tuple is a read-only data structure as we can't modify the size and value of the items of a tuple.

 Let's see a simple example of the tuple.

 tup  = ("hi", "Python", 2)    

# Checking type of tup  

print (type(tup))    


#Printing the tuple  

print (tup)  


# Tuple slicing  

print (tup[1:])    

print (tup[0:1])    


# Tuple concatenation using + operator  

print (tup + tup)    


# Tuple repatation using * operator  

print (tup * 3)     


# Adding value to tup. It will throw an error.  

t[2] = "hi"

 <class 'tuple'>

('hi', 'Python', 2)

('Python', 2)

('hi',)

('hi', 'Python', 2, 'hi', 'Python', 2)

('hi', 'Python', 2, 'hi', 'Python', 2, 'hi', 'Python', 2)


Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "main.py", line 14, in <module>

    t[2] = "hi";

TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

 Dictionary is an unordered set of a key-value pair of items. It is like an associative array or a hash table where each key stores a specific value. Key can hold any primitive data type, whereas value is an arbitrary Python object.

The items in the dictionary are separated with the comma (,) and enclosed in the curly braces {}.

 Consider the following example.

 d = {1:'Jimmy', 2:'Alex', 3:'john', 4:'mike'}     


# Printing dictionary  

print (d)  


# Accesing value using keys  

print("1st name is "+d[1])   

print("2nd name is "+ d[4])    


print (d.keys())    

print (d.values())

 1st name is Jimmy

2nd name is mike

{1: 'Jimmy', 2: 'Alex', 3: 'john', 4: 'mike'}

dict_keys([1, 2, 3, 4])

dict_values(['Jimmy', 'Alex', 'john', 'mike'])

 Boolean type provides two built-in values, True and False. These values are used to determine the given statement true or false. It denotes by the class bool. True can be represented by any non-zero value or 'T' whereas false can be represented by the 0 or 'F'. Consider the following example.

 # Python program to check the boolean type  

print(type(True))  

print(type(False))  

print(false)

 <class 'bool'>

<class 'bool'>

NameError: name 'false' is not defined

 Python Set is the unordered collection of the data type. It is iterable, mutable(can modify after creation), and has unique elements. In set, the order of the elements is undefined; it may return the changed sequence of the element. The set is created by using a built-in function set(), or a sequence of elements is passed in the curly braces and separated by the comma. It can contain various types of values. Consider the following example.

 # Creating Empty set  

set1 = set()  


set2 = {'James', 2, 3,'Python'}  


#Printing Set value  

print(set2)  


# Adding element to the set  


set2.add(10)  

print(set2)  


#Removing element from the set  

set2.remove(2)  

print(set2)

{3, 'Python', 'James', 2}

{'Python', 'James', 3, 2, 10}

{'Python', 'James', 3, 10}

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