Question

What are literals in Python ? How many types of literals are allowed in Python ?

Answer 1

Answer:

A literal is a succinct and easily visible way to write a value. Literals represent the possible choices in primitive types for that language. Some of the choices of types of literals are often integers, floating point, Booleans and character strings.

Explanation:

Python support the following literals:

String literals :: "halo" , '12345'

Int literals :: 0,1,2,-1,-2

Long literals :: 89675L

Float literals :: 3.14

Complex literals :: 12j

Boolean literals :: True or False

Special literals :: None

Unicode literals :: u"hello"

List literals :: [], [5,6,7]

Tuple literals :: (), (9,),(8,9,0)

Dict literals :: {}, {'x':1}

Set literals :: {8,9,10}