Every value in Python has a datatype. Since everything is an object in Python programming, data types are actually classes and variables are instance (object) of these classes. Python supports many data types which are as follows:

Python Numbers

Integers, floating point numbers and complex numbers coming under Python numbers . They are defined as int, float and complex class in Python.

Basically we use the type() function to know which class a variable or a value belongs to and the isinstance() function to check if an object belongs to a particular class.

>>> a=50
>>>print(a,"is of type",type(a))
50 is of type <class 'int'>
>>>a=5.0
>>>print(a,"is of type",type(a))
5.0 is of type <class 'float'>
>>>a=5+6j
>>>print(a,"is complex number?",isinstance(5+6j,complex))
(5+6j) is complex number? True

Integers can be of any length, it is only limited by the memory available.

A floating point number is accurate up to 15 decimal places. Integer and floating points are separated by decimal points. 5 is integer, 5.0 is floating point number.

Complex numbers are written in the form, x + yj, where x is the real part and y is the imaginary part .

>>>x=1234567890987654321
>>>x
1234567890987654321
>>> y=0.1234567890987654
>>>y
0.1234567890987654
>>>z=5+6j
>>>z

Here it is noted that the float variable y have truncated.

The followings are also Python data types :

The description about these data types that I have written in next article.