--Originally published at Waste your time
the basic data type is booleans , numeric, sequences , and mapping
Booleans are values that can only be True or False,
Python supports four different numerical types −
- int (signed integers): They are often called just integers or ints, are positive or negative whole numbers with no decimal point.
- long (long integers ): Also called longs, they are integers of unlimited size, written like integers and followed by an uppercase or lowercase L.
- float (floating point real values) : Also called floats, they represent real numbers and are written with a decimal point dividing the integer and fractional parts. Floats may also be in scientific notation, with E or e indicating the power of 10 (2.5e2 = 2.5 x 102 = 250).
- complex (complex numbers) : are of the form a + bJ, where a and b are floats and J (or j) represents the square root of -1 (which is an imaginary number). The real part of the number is a, and the imaginary part is b. Complex numbers are not used much in Python programming.
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A mapping object
maps immutable values to arbitrary objects. Mappings are mutable objects. There is currently only one standard mapping type, the dictionary. A dictionary’s keys are almost arbitrary values. Only values containing lists, dictionaries or other mutable types (that are compared by value rather than by object identity) may not be used as keys.
