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Python Essentials For Dummies
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Python Essentials For Dummies

by John C. Shovic, Alan Simpson
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
3h 46m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 5

Working with Numbers, Text, and Dates

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Mastering whole numbers

Bullet Juggling numbers with decimal points

Bullet Simplifying strings

Bullet Conquering Boolean True/False

Bullet Working with dates and times

Computer languages in general, and certainly Python, deal with information in ways that are different from what you may be used to in your everyday life. This idea takes some getting used to. In the computer world, numbers are numbers you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Python also differentiates between whole numbers (integers) and numbers that contain a decimal point (floats). Words (textual information such as names and addresses) are stored as strings, which is short for “a string of characters.” In addition to numbers and strings, there are Boolean values, which can be either True or False.

In real life, we also have to deal with dates and times, which are yet another type of information. Python doesn’t have a built-in data type for dates and times, but thankfully, ...

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