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In the previous sections, we identified the types of variables by imagining how they are stored in memory. However, Python offers a built-in function called type that allows us to identify the type of each variable. The type function takes the name of a variable as an argument and returns its type (we will cover functions, arguments, and return values in Chapter 14). Then, we can use the print function to print the types of those variables on the screen. The following code shows the creation of the vari- able productPrice and then prints the defined type of that variable (which is initially an int type). Then, the variable is modified with a float value, and the variable type is printed again (this time float type). Figure 5-8 shows the output on the screen when running this code. Code and execute 1. productPrice = 150 2. print(type(productPrice)) 3. productPrice = 250.5 4. print(type(productPrice)) [> Figure 5-8. Execution of the previous code. 5.7. Comments in Python Many programming languages allow adding com- ments to the code we are developing. These com- ments are defined to leave clues about what the code does. These clues can be for my “future self” (for ex- ample, if I return to the project in two weeks or two months and need to quickly remember what that piece of code did) or for colleagues to understand my code. The following code shows two ways to define com- ments in Python. Line 1 shows how to define single- line comments (using the hashtag symbol “#”). If a line of code in Python starts with “#’, Python will ignore it (will not execute it). Lines 4 to 5 show how to define multiline comments (using three double quotes ""). Python will ignore all lines starting with three double quotes until it finds another set of three double quotes representing the end of the comment. Code and execute 1. #The following line represents the monthly salary of a person 2. salary = 5000 aa 4." We will divide the salary by 2 to distribute it among the family 5. members and print the result to the screen 6. print(salary/2) 5.8. Exercises Theoretical exercises E5.1. What type is each of the following variables? Analyze 1. totalToPay = 1450.7 2. productName = "iPhone 14" 3. satellites = 7

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