Lesson 2: Data Types & Operators
Objective: Understand Python’s basic data types.
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Strings (
"text"), integers (5), floats (3.14) etc. -
Arithmetic (
+,-,*,/) Operators. -
String concatenation (
"Hello" + "World").
Casting
If you want to specify the data type of a variable
x = str(3) # x will be ‘3’
y = int(3) # y will be 3
z = float(3) # z will be 3.0
Code Example
[1] Print the data type of the variable x:
x = 5
print(type(x))
[2] operator to add together two values:
print(10 + 5)
Exercise:
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Calculate the area of a rectangle (length × width).
