syntax difference

[Sharan Basappa]

On Sunday, 17 June 2018 11:42:03 UTC+5:30, Jim Lee  wrote:
> On 06/16/2018 10:13 PM, Sharan Basappa wrote:
> > I think I am now confused with format options in Python.
> > I tried an example as below and both print proper value:
> >
> > age = 35
> >
> > print "age is %s" % age
> > print "age is %d" % age
> >
> > %run "D:/Projects/Initiatives/machine learning/programs/six.py"
> > age is 35
> > age is 35
> >
> > I other languages I know the format specifier should be same as the variable type. For example, in the above case, it has to be %d and not %s
> 
>    Python is not like other languages.  For one thing, there are no 
> "variables" in Python (in the way you think of them).   There are only 
> objects and names.  Names can be thought of like void pointers in C, for 
> example.  They don't have a "type" themselves - they only refer to 
> objects, and the type of object they refer to can change at will.  Also, 
> there are no integers in Python.  Scalar values are actually objects.  
> The number 35 is not an integer, it is an object that has an integer 
> type.  If you do a "dir(35)" in Python, you'll see that the object "35" 
> has more than 70 methods associated with it.   I'll stop there to avoid 
> information overload, but these are some of the key things a Python 
> newcomer needs to wrap their head around....
> 
> -Jim

Jim,

thanks a lot. Somehow, not one book I referred to brought out very clearly that everything in Python is an object including basic data types. Probably, they did and not so explicitly.