Literal in Python, is a raw data that is passed on to a variable or constant as values.
In Python programming language, there are various types of literals as listed below:
In Python programming language, there are various types of literals as listed below:
- Numeric Literals:
- Numeric Literals are immutable (unchangeable).
- Numeric literals can belong to different numerical types like Integer, Float, and Complex.
- Examples:
- String literals:
- A string literal is a sequence of characters surrounded by quotes.
- String literals are immutable (unchangeable).
- We can use both single, double or triple quotes for a string.
- A character literal is a single character surrounded by single or double quotes.
- Examples:
- Boolean literals:
- A Boolean literal can have any of the two values: True or False
- Examples:
- Special literals:
- Python contains one special literal i.e. None.
- We use it to specify to that field that is not created.
- Examples:
- Literal Collections:
- There are four different literal collections List literals, Tuple literals, Dictliterals, and Set literals.
- Examples:
I will talk about each of these literals with more details in upcoming posts.