#                                                                 types.py
#
# See what the following prints to the standard ouput (the computer
# screen).  The function type given an argument 3 returns the type of
# the value 3 which is an integer which is represented with a short
# hand notation <type 'int>

print type (3)



# Similarly here is a floating point number given to find its type in python.

print type (3.14)



# And two boolean values

print type (True)
print type (False)


# And strings this time

print type ("3")


print type ("It is a nice day outside.")



# This is intetesting.  The python interpreter will read this line and
# and recognizes it as a string value, but that is all it will do since
# the interpreter was not asked to do anything beyond that.  Compare this
# with the next one that follows this.  There, it is asked to print the
# recognized value, which is the string value and indeed it will be printed
# on the standard output device, i.e., the screen.

"It is a nice day outside."


# This will not only recognize it but also prints the value to the screen.

print "It is a nice day outside."


# As you may have recognized it by now, any value the language Python, or
# any programming language in general, deals with has a type associated
# with the value.  By using the type information a language processor
# (interpreter in the case of Python) understands what it is dealing with
# and distinguishes one type of value from other types.  That way, it would
# not try to do things that would not make sense for example, adding a number
# to a string.