Chapter 4. Types of Data

We have seen that there are at least three different types of things we can assign to a variable (to keep in the computer’s memory): integers, floating-point numbers, and strings. There are other types of data in Python, which we will learn about later, but for now these three will do. In this chapter, we’re going to learn how you can tell what type something is. We will also see how to make one type from another.