Data Types

For reference, read here.

We have said that a variable refers to a location in memory which contains data. But there are many different types of data. For example, this sentence is a string of characters, we refer to text like this as a string.

There are many ways we can represent numbers. If you wanted to store with the constant PI, to how many decimal places would you store it?

Integers	int	Whole numbers	400
Floating Point	float	Numbers with a decimal	2.134
Complex numbers	complex	Complex number with real and imaginary part	complex(12, 4)
Strings	str	Ordered immutable sequence of characters	“Yoo Hoo!”
Lists	list	Ordered sequence of objects	[12AUG22, “Euro”, 1.123]
Dictionaries	dict	Unordered Key:Value	{index:123, name:”JOR”}
Tuples	tup	Ordered immutable sequence of objects	(12AUG22, “Euro”, 1.123)
Sets	set	Unordered collection of unique objects	{“a”, “b”, “c”}
Booleans	bool	Logical value	True