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Variables are nothing but reserved memory locations to store values.

It means
that when you create a variable, you reserve some space in the memory.

Based on the data type of a variable, the interpreter allocates memory and
decides what can be stored in the reserved memory. Therefore, by assigning
different data types to the variables, you can store integers, decimals or
characters in these variables.

Assigning Values to Variables


Python variables do not need explicit declaration to reserve memory space. The
declaration happens automatically when you assign a value to a variable. The
equal sign (=) is used to assign values to variables.

The operand to the left of the = operator is the name of the variable and the
operand to the right of the = operator is the value stored in the variable. For
example-

#!/usr/bin/python3
counter = 100 # An integer assignment
miles = 1000.0 # A floating point
name = "John" # A string
print (counter)
print (miles)
print (name)

Here, 100, 1000.0 and "John" are the values assigned to counter, miles,
and name variables, respectively. This produces the following result −

100
1000.0
John

Multiple Assignment
Python allows you to assign a single value to several variables

simultaneously. For example-

a = b = c = 1

Here, an integer object is created with the value 1, and all the three variables are
assigned to the same memory location. You can also assign multiple objects to
multiple variables.
For example-

a, b, c = 1, 2, "john"

Here, two integer objects with values 1 and 2 are assigned to the variables a and
b respectively, and one string object with the value "john" is assigned to the
variable c.
Standard Data Types

The data stored in memory can be of many types. For example, a person's age is
stored as a numeric value and his or her address is stored as alphanumeric
characters. Python has various standard data types that are used to define the
operations possible on them and the storage method for each of them.

Python has five standard data types-

 Numbers
 String
 List
 Tuple
 Dictionary

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