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Types of Scripting Language

This document summarizes data types in scripting languages like Python. It notes that Python uses dynamic typing where types are checked at runtime. The main data types in Python include strings, lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries, integers, and floats. Lists can be used to build complex data structures and support functions like append, pop, filter and map. Python also supports object-oriented programming with classes, objects, methods and special constructor syntax.

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Types of Scripting Language

This document summarizes data types in scripting languages like Python. It notes that Python uses dynamic typing where types are checked at runtime. The main data types in Python include strings, lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries, integers, and floats. Lists can be used to build complex data structures and support functions like append, pop, filter and map. Python also supports object-oriented programming with classes, objects, methods and special constructor syntax.

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Types in Scripting Languages

CS 351 – Programming Paradigms


Data Types in Python
 Scripting languages don’t generally require or allow the
declaration of types ofr variables.
 Most perform a series of run-time checks to make sure
that values are used in an appropriate way.
 Python is strongly typed with operations enforced at
run-time.
 The type system is Python is known as ``duck typing’’.
 This informally allows the type of a value to be
determined via the following rule:
 “If looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck”
Data Types in Python
 Python uses the reference model for its types.
 Some built-in types in Python include:

Type Kind Syntax Example


str String ‘hello‘
list Sequence [4.0, 'string', True]
tuple Sequence (4.0, 'string', True)
set Set set([4.0, 'string', True])
dict Mapping {'key1': 1.0, 'key2': False}
int Integer 42
float Number 3.1415927
Examples
 s = “hello”
 r = 56
 l = [1,2,3]
 t = (56,78,54)
 dict = { ‘one’ : 1, ‘two’:2 }

 We can just initialise the types and the interpreter


takes care of the rest.
Lists in Python
 Lists can form the basic blocks of most complex data
structures in Python.
 l = [1,2,3,4]
 l.append(5)
 print l # prints [1,2,3,4,5]
 l.pop
 print l # prints [1,2,3,4]
 l.pop(0)
 print l # prints [2,3,4]
Lists and the filter and map
functions
 We can define an arbitrary function
 def f(x): return x%2==0
 filter ( f, range ( 2, 100 ) )

 Defining another function:


 def g(x): return x+4
 map ( g, range (4, 16) )

 What are doing here?


 What paradigm is this?
Object Orientation
 Python is explicitly object-oriented.
 To define a class in Python we use the following
syntax:

class myclass:
“This class shows Python Syntax”
intval = 12345
def printsomething(self):
return “hello world”

 We can create objects simply:


x = myclass()
print x.printsomething()
Object Orientation
 The constructor for a Python class has special syntax.

class myclass:
def __init__ (self, list ) :
self.data = list # assign list to data

x = myclass ( [1,2,3,4,5] )
print x.data # what is printed?
Object Orientation
class Shape:
def __init__ (self) :
self.name = “Shape”

def printName (self) :


return self.name

def getArea (self ) :


return 0

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