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Data Types In Python

In this article, we will discuss data types in python.

What Are Data Types?

Data is classified into different categories like integer, decimal, string, etc. Each category is a data type.

Integer

Any value that is a number, positive or negative, and does not contain decimals are integer.

PositiveValue = 25
NegativeValue = -12

Float

Any value that is a number, positive or negative, and contains decimals is float.

PositiveValue  = 40000.35
NegativeValue  = -40000.35

String

It is the sequence of characters

message = "Hello world"

A string can start with single and double quotes.

string_with_single_quotes = 'value 1'
string_with_double_quotes = "value 2"

Boolean

This data type has 2 permissible values i.e., true, or false

isFlag = True

Consider the following example: -

message = "Hello"
print(message[0])
print(message[1])
print(message[2])
print(message[3])
print(message[4])

Here, the string is accessible using the index. Here is the output of the above program.

Python supports multiple escape characters but we will discuss only 2.

Let us demonstrate it with an example.

message1 = "Hello \n world"
message2 = "Hello \t world"

print ("message1 is :", message1)
print ("message2 is :", message2)

Here is the output

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