A few questiosn about encoding

[Nick the Gr33k]

On 14/6/2013 1:19 μμ, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 14Jun2013 11:37, Nikos as SuperHost Support <support at superhost.gr> wrote:
> | On 14/6/2013 11:22 πμ, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> |
> | >>Python prints numbers:
> | >No it doesn't, numbers are abstract concepts that can be represented in
> | >various notations, these notations are strings. Those notaional strings
> | >end up being printed. As I said before we are so used in using the
> | >decimal notation that we often use the notation and the number interchangebly
> | >without a problem. But when we are working with multiple notations that
> | >can become confusing and we should be careful to seperate numbers from their
> | >representaions/notations.
> |
> | How do we separate a number then from its represenation-natation?
>
> Shrug. When you "print" a number, Python transcribes a string
> representation of it to your terminal.

 >>> 16
16

So the output 16 is in fact a string representation of the number 16 ?

Then in what 16 and '16; differ to?

>
> | What is a notation anywat? is it a way of displayment? but that
> | would be a represeantion then....
>
> Yep. Same thing. A "notation" is a particulart formal method of
> representation.


Can you elaborate please?
> | No it doesn't, numbers are abstract concepts that can be represented in
> | various notations
> |
> | >>but when we need a decimal integer
> | >
> | >There are no decimal integers. There is only a decimal notation of the number.
> | >Decimal, octal etc are not characteristics of the numbers themselves.
> |
> | So everything we see like:
> |
> | 16474
> | nikos
> | abc123
> |
> | everything is a string and nothing is a number? not even number 1?
>
> Everything you see like that is textual information. Internally to
> Python, various types are used: strings, bytes, integers etc. But
> when you print something, text is output.
>
> Cheers,
>
Thanks!

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