codehub27: Python programming basics- typecasting

Typecasting is the process of converting a variable’s datatype to another datatype. It can be done implicitly in python.

How to know the datatype of a variable in python???

Here, is the clue…

A keyword ‘type()’ is used to find the data type.

Examples are given below.

a = 4

b = 5.7

c = ‘s’

d = “String”

print(“The data type of the variable a is:”,type(a))

print(“The data type of the variable b is:”,type(b))

print(“The data type of the variable c is:”,type(c))

print(“The data type of the variable d is:”,type(d))

For eg, if you are using a variable in ‘int’ datatype, but the output needs in float.

a = 12

b = 5

c = a / b

print(“The value is”,c)

Next, explicit type conversion in python is given below…..

This can be done by using keywords.

Converting int to float :

It is the most used conversion. It mainly used in mathematical expressions.

Eg:

a = 12

b = 23.6

c = float(a) + b

print(“The sum is:”,c)

Converting float to int:

This can be done by int() method.

Eg:

a = 3.45

b = int(a)

print(“The converted int value is:”,b)

Converting int, float numbers to string is not that much applicable.

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