Modern Python Cookbook - Third Edition

1 Numbers, Strings, and Tuples

This chapter will look at some of the central types of Python objects. We’ll look at working with different kinds of numbers, working with strings, and using tuples. These are the simplest kinds of data that Python works with. In later chapters, we’ll look at data structures built on these foundations.

While these recipes start with a beginner’s level of understanding of Python 3.12, they also provide some deeper background for those familiar with the language. In particular, we’ll look at some details of how numbers are represented internally, because this can help when confronted with more advanced numerical programming problems. This will help us distinguish the uses cases for the rich variety of numeric types. ...