diff -r 57ae1f75b7e0 -r fddcfd83e4f0 numbers.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/numbers.org Wed Apr 21 14:43:08 2010 +0530 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +* Data Types +*** Outline +***** Introduction +******* What are we going to do? +******* How are we going to do? +******* Arsenal Required +********* None +*** Script + Welcome friends. + + In this tutorial we shall look at data types available in Python and + how to perform simple Input and Output operations. + for 'Numbers' we have: int, float, complex datatypes + for Text content we have strings. + For conditional statements, 'Booleans'. + + Lets get started by opening IPython interpreter. + Lets start with 'numbers' + All integers irrespective of how big they are, are of 'int' + data type + Now we will create a variable, say + x = 13 + print x + + To check the data type of any variable Python provides 'type' function + type(x) + + y = 999999999999 + print y + + Floating point numbers comes under 'float' + p = 3.141592 + type(p) + + Python by default provides support for complex numbers. + c = 3+4j + c is a complex number. 'j' is used to specify the imaginary part. + type(c) + Python also provides basic functions for their manipulations like + abs(c) will return the absolute value of c(sqrt(a^2 + b^2)) + c.imag returns imaginary part and c.real gives the real part. + + Next we will look at Boolean datatype: + Its a primitive datatype having one of two values: True or False. + t = True + print t + + Python is case sensitive language, so True with 'T' is boolean type but + true with 't' would be a variable. + + f = not True + + we can do binary operation like 'or' and 'not' with these variables + f or t + f and t + + in case of multiple binary operations to make sure of precedence use + 'brackets ()' + a = False + b = True + c = True + (a and b) or c + True + first a and b is evaluated and then the 'or' statement + a and (b or c) + False + + we come to the end of this tutorial on introduction of Data types in + Python. In this tutorial we have learnt what are supported data types, + supported operations and performing simple IO operations in Python. + +*** Notes