Okay! Just like there are various types of cells in Excel (numbers, dates, text...), there are also various types of variables in Python. For instance:
Integers (int):
current_age = 5
Floating-point numbers (the type is called float in Python) – numbers with decimal fractions that use dots (.):
current_weight = 75.5
Strings (string) – text values surrounded by single quotes (' ') or double quotes(" "):
standard_greeting = 'My name is Tom!'
Unlike many other programming languages, Python automatically detects the type of variable it should use. For instance, if you type:
temperature = 36.6
Python will know that the temperature variable is a float because the number contains a dot.
In Python, there is a function named type() that can tell you the type of the variable inside its parentheses. Now, take a look at the template code and run it.
You can see that var1 is an integer (int); var2 is a float because it contains a decimal point (.); and var3 is a string (str) because it is put inside quotes.
Simply run the template code.
