Python Programming with the Java™ Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications with Jython

Variables

Think of variables as individual storage containers that hold different kinds of data in memory. Each variable has a name and a value, and each variable value has a type.

Declaring Variables

In most languages, before you can use a variable you have to declare it; that is, you must assign it a name and a type. Python is different; unlike in other languages, you declare a variable implicitly by assigning a value to it. Here's an example:

# declare age to be of type integer and of value 28.
age = 28

# declare name to be of type string
# and of value "rick"
name = "rick"

Variable declarations can go anywhere in a module. You can declare more than one variable at once by stringing them together. (Follow along).

 >>> x,y,z = 1,2,3 >>> print ...