2.11DATA TYPES IN PYTHON

Data types are the special keywords that define the type of data and the amount of data a variable is holding. In programming, a data type is an important concept. Variables can store data of different types, and different types can do different things.

Python has the following data types built-in by default, in these categories:

Text Type:	str
Numeric Types:	int, float, complex
Sequence Types:	list, tuple, range
Mapping Type:	dict
Set Types:	set, frozenset
Boolean Type:	bool
Binary Types:	bytes, bytearray, memoryview

Getting the Data Type

You can get the data type of any object by using the type() function.

FIGURE 2.2 The relationship between Python data types