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Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation
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Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation

by Saverio Perugini
December 2021
Beginner
840 pages
47h 29m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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A.3 Data Types

Python does not have primitive types since all data in Python is represented as an object. Integers, booleans, floats, lists, tuples, sets, and dicts are all instances of classes:

A set of six code lines in Python with an instance of class.
Description
Continuation of the code in Python with an instance of class consisting of four lines.
Description

To convert a value of one type to a value of another type, the constructor method for the target type class can be called:

A set of 14 code lines in Python for converting a value of one type to a value of another type using the constructor method.
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Python has the following types: numeric (int, float, complex), sequences (str,

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