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Data Types and Variables

Introduction

This chapter is about Python data types. Python has many built-in data types such as integers, floats, booleans, strings, and lists.

By the end of this chapter you will be able to:

• Explain the difference between Python's built-in data types

• Define variables with the assignment operator =

• Create variables with different data types

• Use Python's type() function to determine an object's data type

• Compare variables with the comparison operator ==

• Convert variables from one data type to another

• Work with integers, floats and complex numbers

• Understand the boolean data type

• Create and modify lists, dictionaries and tuples

• Index and slice strings, lists and tuples