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Explain Python's built-in data types.
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Explain Python's built-in data types.
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Python's most common built-in data types , grouped by the kind of value they hold, are:
Numeric: int, float and complex.
Sequence: str, list and tuple.
Set: set and frozenset.
Mapping: dict.
Boolean: bool, with the values True and False.
None: NoneType, whose only value is None.
Python is dynamically typed , so a variable has no fixed type, and type(value) tells you the type of the value it holds. The types also differ in mutability . Lists, dicts and sets can change in place, while numbers, strings and tuples cannot.
integer = 42
floating = 3.14
string = "Hello"
boolean = True
none_value = None
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