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Python has five basic types:

#Numbers

you can put them as:

a = 1 b = 3 or var_1=4 var_2=3 or delete them like (“del var”) or (“del var1[,var2[,var3]]] etc.

Also python supports four numerical types:

int (integers), long (long integers, can also be octal or hexadecimal), float (floating point real values) and complex (complex numbers).

#String

A string’s official definition is: “Strings in Python are identified as a contiguous set of characters represented in the quotation marks. Python allows for either pairs of single or double quotes. Subsets of strings can be taken using the slice operator ([ ] and [:] ) with indexes starting at 0 in the beginning of the string and working their way from -1 at the end.”

I made several strings, sentences to link one to another and printed them to have fun and made up sentences combined with the strings.

The results were these (Elizabeth is a random name, don’t worry):

#List

“Lists are the most versatile of Python’s compound data types. A list contains items separated by commas and enclosed within square brackets ([]). To some extent, lists are similar to arrays in C. One difference between them is that all the items belonging to a list can be of different data type.” -tutorialspoint.com

I made a basic list with words

this is the result, it solved the 17×10^-4 and the other values were just put like they were in the list

#Tuple

Tuples are the same as a list its just that the variables go inside of () instead of []

#Dictionary

According to tutorials point: “Python’s dictionaries are kind of hash table type. They work like associative arrays or hashes found in Perl and consist of key-value pairs. A dictionary key can be almost any Python type,

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--Originally published at angelmendozas

During the weekend I learned several stuff and one of them was to make basic operation on python and they are done like this

This is a very clear example: You put your variables as a, b c or d, depending on how many you want.

Then I introduced some comments to specify which operation was going to be written.

For a sum we know it’s +, subtraction -, multiplication *, exponent **, division / , and for the remainder of a division we use %.

The results are these:

For the first division which is the first zero just put: float and you variable in parenthesis like this:

float(c) / a

and it should give you the decimals which are 0.190327…etc. Because if you just put the division then Python will give you the most basic answer, no decimals, just everything that goes before the dot.