Learning Plan 02: Writing Your First Program

Discussion 02: Data types.In python programming language, data type is an important concept. Python data types are mainly used to define the type of variables. Python has the following built-in data types by default, in these categories: text types, numeric types, list, tuple, dictionary, Boolean type, and binary types.For numeric data types they are usually three that is; int, long, float and complex. Mainly, variables of numeric types are created when you assign values to them. For example,X= 1 the name is int, Y= 2.7 name is float, and Z = 1j name is complex.Int, or integer is usually a whole number either negative or a positive without a decimal value that is of infinite range. Float, or floating point number is a number either positive or negative containing one or more decimal values. For complex numbers they are written with a “j” as the imaginary part. Python data type string is a sequence of characters and they are represented with either double or single quotes. Python data type list simultaneously hold different types of data. Usually list is a sequence of data with some square brackets ([]) and commas. For example, a= [“1”, “2”, “3”, “4”] # list having