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Python Data Types: The Complete Map
Python ships with a small set of built in types. Sorting them by three questions - single value or container, ordered or not, changeable or not - make...
Data Types
Numbers, booleans, text and the built in containers, mutability, type(), id(), isinstance() and every form of type conversion.
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Numbers in Python: int, float, complex and bool
Integers are unbounded, floats are binary approximations, division always produces a float, and bool is quietly an integer. Each of those facts change...
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Mutability, Identity and Type Checking
type() names the class, id() names the object and isinstance() answers the question you usually meant to ask. Together they explain every aliasing sur...
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Type Conversion in Python
Python converts numeric types automatically inside an expression and refuses everything else. Explicit conversion is a set of constructor functions, e...