Types – TC101 Fall 2016

Hello guys! This is probably really basic after all this time but I just noticed that I didn´t write a post about types for Python.

So let’s begin answering what are types? There are just a classification of data that tells the interpreter how you intend to use the data.

So let’s see which ones are the basic types in python:

types.BooleanType: The type of the bool values True and False; alias of the built-in bool.

types.IntType: The type of integers (e.g. 1); alias of the built-in int.

types.LongType: The type of long integers (e.g. 1L); alias of the built-in long.

types.FloatType: The type of floating point numbers (e.g. 1.0); alias of the built-in float.

types.StringType: The type of character strings (e.g. 'Spam'); alias of the built-in str.

types.TupleType: The type of tuples (e.g. (1, 2, 3, 'Spam')); alias of the built-in tuple.

types.ListType: The type of lists (e.g. [0, 1, 2, 3]); alias of the built-in list.

types.DictType: The type of dictionaries (e.g. {'Bacon': 1, 'Ham': 0}); alias of the built-in dict.

There are of course more, but this are the ones you absoluteley need to know.

Here is a very explicit video on data types:

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Sources: https://docs.python.org/2/library/types.html

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