Types of things

Every object in Python, has a type.

We can show what type of thing something is, by calling type, like this:

type(1)

int

type(1.0)

float

a = 1
type(a)

int

If you get stuck in some code, it is often useful to check what types the objects are.

We will use multiple types when analyzing data. We cover some of the common ones, in this chapter.