{"id":17379,"date":"2021-10-13T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/?p=17379"},"modified":"2021-10-13T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:26:27","slug":"data-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/data-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction To Data Types In Python: Beginners Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/1f9d1-1f3fb-200d-1f4bb.png\" alt=\":technologist::skin-tone-2:\" aria-label=\"technologist emoji with light skin tone\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":technologist::skin-tone-2:\" \/><\/span><span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/2714-fe0f.png\" alt=\":heavy_check_mark:\" aria-label=\"heavy check mark emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":heavy_check_mark:\" \/><\/span> A data type or simply a type is a property of data, that tells the language processor (compiler, interpreter) how we are going to use this data.<br \/>\n<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/2714-fe0f.png\" alt=\":heavy_check_mark:\" aria-label=\"heavy check mark emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":heavy_check_mark:\" \/><\/span>It represents the kind of value that tells what operations can be performed on a particular data. Since everything is an object in Python programming, data types are actually classes and variables are instances (object) of these classes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/2714-fe0f.png\" alt=\":heavy_check_mark:\" aria-label=\"heavy check mark emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":heavy_check_mark:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Python has primarily 5 built-in data types which are divided as mutable &amp; immutable:<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/0031-fe0f-20e3.png\" alt=\":one:\" aria-label=\"one emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":one:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Numbers<br \/>\n<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/0032-fe0f-20e3.png\" alt=\":two:\" aria-label=\"two emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":two:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Sequence<br \/>\n<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/0033-fe0f-20e3.png\" alt=\":three:\" aria-label=\"three emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":three:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Set<br \/>\n<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/0034-fe0f-20e3.png\" alt=\":four:\" aria-label=\"four emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":four:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Boolean<br \/>\n<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/0035-fe0f-20e3.png\" alt=\":five:\" aria-label=\"five emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":five:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Dictionary<span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/1f50e.png\" alt=\":mag_right:\" aria-label=\"mag right emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":mag_right:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Numeric data types hold numerical values.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 sub-types which are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Integers,<\/p>\n<p>Float,<\/p>\n<p>and Complex Numbers<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.slack-edge.com\/production-standard-emoji-assets\/13.0\/google-medium\/1f50e.png\" alt=\":mag_right:\" aria-label=\"mag right emoji\" data-stringify-type=\"emoji\" data-stringify-emoji=\":mag_right:\" \/><\/span>\u00a0A sequence is the ordered collection of similar or different data types. 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