PYTHON DATATYPES

Prepared By
Anand G
Assistant Professor,
ECE Department,
Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology,
Pollachi-642003
Email: anandg@drmcet.ac.in
 Python numbers
• Integers, floating point numbers and complex numbers fall under Python
numbers category. They are defined as int, float and complex class in
Python.
• We can use the type() function to know which class a variable or a value
belongs to and the isinstance() function to check if an object belongs to a
particular class.
a=5
>>>print(a, "is of type", type(a))
5 is of type <class 'int'>
>>>a = 2.0
>>>print(a, "is of type", type(a))
2.0 is of type <class 'float'>
>>>a= 1+2j
>>>print(a, "is complex number?")
 (1+2j) is complex number?
>>>print(isinstance(1+2j, complex))
 True
 Number Length
• Integers can be of any length, it is only limited by the memory available. A
floating point number is accurate up to few decimal places. Integer and
floating points are separated by decimal points. 1 is integer, 1.0 is floating
point number.
• Complex numbers are written in the form, x + yj, where x is the real part
and y is the imaginary part.
Examples
>>> a = 1234567890123456789
>>> a
1234567890123456789
>>> b = 0.1234567890123456789
>>> b
0.12345678901234568
>>> c = 1+2j
• >>> c
(1+2j)
 Python List
• List is an ordered sequence of items. It is one of the most used datatype in
Python and is very flexible. All the items in a list do not need to be of the
same type.
• Declaring a list is pretty straight forward. Items separated by commas are
enclosed within brackets [ ].
• We can use the slicing operator [ ] to extract an item or a range of items
from a list. Index starts form 0 in Python.

Examples: Lists are mutable, meaning, value of

>>>a = [5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40] elements of a list can be altered.
>>>print("a[2] = ", a[2])
 a[2] = 15 >>> a = [1,2,3]
>>>print("a[0:3] = ", a[0:3]) >>> a[2]=4
 a[0:3] = [5, 10, 15] >>> print(a)
>>>print("a[5:] = ", a[5:]) [1, 2, 4]
a[5:] = [30, 35, 40]
 Python Tuple
• Tuple is an ordered sequence of items same as list. The only difference is
that tuples are immutable. Tuples once created cannot be modified.
• Tuples are used to write-protect data and are usually faster than list as it
cannot change dynamically.
• It is defined within parentheses () where items are separated by commas.
t = (5,'program', 1+3j)
• The slicing operator [] can be used to extract items but their values cannot
be changed
>>>t = (5,'program', 1+3j)
>>>print("t[1] = ", t[1])
t[1] = program
>>>print("t[0:3] = ", t[0:3])
t[0:3] = (5, 'program', (1+3j))
# Generates error since Tuples are immutable
>>>t[0] = 10
 Error: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
 Python Strings
• String is sequence of Unicode characters. We can use
single quotes or double quotes to represent strings.
>>>s = 'Hello world!’
>>>print("s[4] = ", s[4])
 s[4] = o
>>>print("s[6:11] = ", s[6:11])
 s[6:11] = world
# Generates error
# Strings are immutable in Python
>>>s[5] ='d‘
 TypeError: 'str' object does not support item
assignment
 Python Set
• Set is an unordered collection of unique items. Set is defined by values
separated by comma inside braces { }. Items in a set are not ordered.
>>>a = {5,2,3,1,4}
>>>print("a = ", a)
 a = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
>>>print(type(a))
 <class 'set'>
• Set have unique values. They eliminate duplicates.
>>> a = {1,2,2,3,3,3}
>>>print( )a
{1, 2, 3}
• Since, set are unordered collection, indexing has no meaning. Hence the
slicing operator [] does not work.
 Python Dictionary
• Dictionary is an unordered collection of key-value pairs.
• It is generally used when we have a huge amount of data. Dictionaries are
optimized for retrieving data. We must know the key to retrieve the value.
• In Python, dictionaries are defined within braces {} with each item being a
pair in the form key:value. Key and value can be of any type.
• We use key to retrieve the respective value. But not the other way around.
>>>d = {1:'value','key':2}
>>>print(type(d))
<class 'dict'>
>>>print("d[1] = ", d[1]);
d[1] = value
>>>print("d['key'] = ", d['key']);
d['key'] = 2
# Generates error
>>>print("d[2] = ", d[2]);
 KeyError: 2
 Conversion between datatypes
• We can convert between different data types by using different type
conversion functions like int(), float(), str() etc.
>>> float(5)
5.0
• Conversion from float to int will truncate the value (make it closer to zero).
>>> int(10.6)
10
>>> int(-10.6)
-10
• Conversion to and from string must contain compatible values.
>>> float('2.5')  String to float conversion
2.5
>>> str(25)  Integer to string conversion
'25'
>>> int('1p')
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1p'
 Conversion between datatypes
• We can even convert one sequence to another.
>>> set([1,2,1,3,3])  List to Set
{1, 2, 3}
>>> tuple({5,6,7})  Set to tuple
(5, 6, 7)
>>> list('hello')  String to List
['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']

• To convert to dictionary, each element must be a pair

>>> dict([[1,2],[3,4]])
{1: 2, 3: 4}
 Variables
• A variable is a name that refers to a value.
• The assignment statement creates new variables and gives them values.

>>> message = "What's up, Doc?" 

>>> n = 17 
>>> pi = 3.14159 
• The type of a variable is the type of the value it refers to.

>>> type(message) 
<type 'str'> 
• The underscore character (_) can appear in a name. It is often used in
names with multiple words, such as my_name or price_of_tea_in_china.
 Contd…
• Variable names can be arbitrarily long. They can contain both letters and
numbers, but they have to begin with a letter.
• If uppercase letters are used, remember case matters. A and a are
different variables.
• If you give a variable an illegal name, you get a syntax error:

>>> 76trombones = 'big parade' 

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
• Keywords define the language's rules and structure, and they cannot be
used as variable names
 Expressions
• An expression is a combination of values, variables, and operators.

>>> x=2+3
>>> message = 'Hello, World!'
• When the Python interpreter displays the value of an expression, it uses the same
format you would use to enter a value. In the case of strings, that means that it
includes the quotation marks.
• But if you use a print statement, Python displays the contents of the string without
the quotation marks.
>>> message 
'Hello, World!' 
>>> print message 
Hello, World!
 Operators and Operands
• Operators are special symbols that represent computations like addition
and multiplication.

• The values the operator uses are called as operands.

• Some of the operands are

+  addition

-  subtraction

*  multiplication
/  division

**  exponentiation
 Order of operations
• When more than one operator appears in an expression, the order of
evaluation depends on the rules of precedence.
• Python follows the same precedence rules for its mathematical operators
that mathematics does.
• The acronym PEMDAS is a useful way to remember the order of
operations.
• Parentheses have the highest precedence and can be used to force an
expression to evaluate in the order you want. Since expressions in
parentheses are evaluated first, 2 * (3-1) is 4.
• Exponentiation has the next highest precedence, so 2**1+1 is 3 and not 4
• Multiplication and Division have the same precedence, which is higher
than Addition and Subtraction, which also have the same precedence.
So 2*3-1 yields 5 rather than 4, and 2/3-1 is -1, not 1
• Operators with the same precedence are evaluated from left to right. So in
the expression minute*100/60, the multiplication happens first,
yielding 5900/60, which in turn yields 98.
 String Operations
• In general, mathematical operations can not be performed on
strings, even if the strings look like numbers. The following are
illegal (assuming that message has type string):
message-1   'Hello'/123   message*'Hello'   '15'+2 
• Interestingly, the + operator does work with strings. For strings,
the + operator represents concatenation, which means joining
the two operands by linking them end-to-end. Execute the
following:
>>>fruit = 'banana' 
>>>baked= ' nut bread' 
>>>print (fruit + baked) 
• The * operator also works on strings; it performs repetition. For
example, 'Fun'*3 is 'FunFunFun'. One of the operands has to be a
string; the other has to be an integer.
 String Operations
• ‘len’ command is used to find the length of a string
>>>astring = “Hello world!”
>>>print(len(astring))
• To find the index of a particular alphabet
>>>print(astring.index("o"))
• To count the number of times an alphabet occurs in a string
>>>print(astring.count("l"))
• To print a slice of string
>>>print(astring[3:7])
• To print a slice of string by skipping one character
>>>print(astring[3:9:2])
• To print uppercase or lowercase
>>>print(astring.upper())
>>>print(astring.lower())
 Complex Number Operations
>>>x=4+5j
• To print the real and imaginary parts:
>>>print(x.real)
>>>print(x.imag)
• To find the magnitude of the complex number
>>>m=abs(x)
• To find the phase of the complex number, we can use phase() function in
the cmath library
>>>import cmath
>>>p=cmath.phase(x)
• For rectangular to polar form conversion and vice-versa, we cae use
functions from cmath library
>>>import cmath
>>>w=cmath.polar(x)
 List Operations
append() - Add an element to the end of the list
extend() - Add all elements of a list to the another list
insert() - Insert an item at the defined index
remove() - Removes an item from the list
pop() - Removes and returns an element at the given index
clear() - Removes all items from the list
index() - Returns the index of the first matched item
count() - Returns the count of number of items passed as an argument
sort() - Sort items in a list in ascending order
reverse() - Reverse the order of items in the list
 Set Operations
>>>my_set = {1,3}
>>>my_set.add(2)
>>>print(my_set)
>>>my_set.update([3,4,5],{5,6,7,8})
>>>print(my_set)
>>>my_set.remove(6)
>>>print(my_set)

| for union. Input : A = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}

B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
& for intersection. Output :
– for difference Union : [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
^ for symmetric difference Intersection : [2, 4]
Difference : [8, 0, 6]
Symmetric difference : [0, 1,
3, 5, 6, 8]
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